Roger L Ransom

Gambling on War

Confidence, Fear, and the Tragedy of the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

Discusses the irrational, risk-taking decisions of overconfident leaders which led to a seminal turning point in world history that shaped the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9781108485029
• ISBN-10: 1108485022
• Artikelnr.: 51271328

Autorenporträt

Roger L. Ransom is Distinguished Professor of History and Economics, Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside. He is best known for his work with Richard Sutch on the American Civil War and his many publications include the books One Kind of Freedom (co-authored with Richard Sutch Cambridge, 2001), Conflict and Compromise (Cambridge, 1990) and The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been (2005). He was the president of the Economic History Association in 2005, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the distinguished teaching award from the University of California, Riverside. He also won the Arthur H. Cole Prize from the Economic History Association and the Clio Can Award from the Cliometric Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. Confidence, fear, and a propensity to gamble
2. Otto von Bismarck and the changing paradigm of war
3. Schlieffen's gamble
4. A war of attrition
5. Economies at war
6. War and revolution
7. The last gamble
8. The chaos of victory
Epilogue: the tragedy of a world war.