James Joll Bücher

Eine Studie zur Entstehungsgeschichte des 1. Weltkrieges, in der neben den historischen Faktoren auch die bisherigen Auffassungen über den eigentlichen Kriegsausbruch kritisch analysiert werden.

James Joll's justly-celebrated and best-selling study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand them.

This is an incredibly detailed account of the development of Europe since 1870. Joll moves from one country to another in the space of a few lines, making detailed comparisons along the way, paying attention to intellectual and social trends as well as political developments.

James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism-a centralized and hierarchical political form based in ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions-in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics.