num_pages: 341
description: Taking into account the scholarship of the last 20 years, this new edition rejects recent arguments that Britain went to war out of either weakness, fear of an "invented" German menace, or fears for the Empire. Instead, while placing greater emphasis than before on the role of Russia, Zara S. Steiner and Keith Neilson maintain the view that Britain was forced into the war in order to preserve the European balance of power and Britain's favorable position within it.
language: English
title: Britain and the Origins of the First World War
titlecomplete: Britain and the Origins of the First World War (Making of the Twentieth Century)
characters: H.H. Asquith, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
genres: History, World War I
ratings_count: 21
series: The Making of the Twentieth Century
publisher: Red Globe Press