Ebook {Epub PDF} Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I by Michael S. Neiberg

7 rows · Dance of the Furies.: Michael S. Neiberg. Harvard University Press, - History - 7 Hardening Attitudes:  · Michael S. Neiberg is the award-winning author of Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe, Fighting the Great War, and Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I, among other books. He is Professor of History and the inaugural Chair of War Studies at the US Army War www.doorway.run description: Reprint. Looking beyond diplomats and generals, Neiberg shows that neither nationalist passions nor desires for revenge took Europe to war in Dance of the Furies gives voice to a generation who.

Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I. By Michael S. Neiberg Belknap Press/Harvard University Press. pp, £ ISBN Published 26 May From Belknap Press: The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an explosion of passion that would rip the continent apart. But in a crucial reexamination of the outbreak of violence, Michael S. Neiberg shows that ordinary Europeans, [ ]. Michael Neiberg, US Army War CollegeThe common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the sli.

MLADEN JOKSIC: In Dance of the Furies, you argue against the conventional view of World War I as a people's war whose outbreak was welcomed with enthusiasm across Europe. Instead, you argue that "few Europeans expected a war and even fewer wanted one," and that the war's origins and outbreak were the products of a classic cabinet war. Can you explain your thesis?. Rather than delving into the various real and purported causes of the war, however, Dance of the Furies focuses on the raw unexpectedness of the outbreak of hostilities for the vast majority of the people it was to embrace. Thus the sudden gape-mouthed surprise of everybody on the lawns of Downton Abbey poignantly mirrors how the outbreak of war affected just about everyone concerned other than a small group of rulers and politicians. Michael S. Neiberg is the award-winning author of Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe, Fighting the Great War, and Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I, among other books. He is Professor of History and the inaugural Chair of War Studies at the US Army War College.