The origins of the war, 1871-1914,

J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

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• World War
• Causes

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• Langue: English
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By
HOLLAND ROSE, Litt.D.
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Fellow of Christ's College and Reader in Modern History
in the University ofCambridge, Corresponding Member
of the Massachusetts Historical Society
G.P.PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Ube 1knicF?erbocl?et press
1Q18'
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•- • • «.PREFATORY NOTE
DESIRE gratefully to acknowledge the valuable
I advice given by the following while the sheets of
this volume passed through the Press: Sir Adolphus
Ward, Litt.D., Master of Peterhouse, B. Bury,W. J.
F.B.A., Regius Professor of Modern History, and W.J.
Headlam, M.A., both of King's College, Cambridge. My
hearty thanks are also due to the following for help in
the arduous task of research: E. R. Adair, B.A.,
P. Vos, B.A., Gonville and Caius College,Peterhouse,
Stowell, Corpus Christi College, and Miss LiHanE. la M.
'^^^itehouse, formerly of Girton Cambridge. In
controversial a subject as this, I wish it to be under-so
that I take sole responsibility for the statementsstood
in this volume.
H. R.J.
Cambridge,
December 1914.4,CONTENTS
PAGE
I. Anglo-German Rivalry (1875—1888) . I
II. The Kaiser . . . . . ,21
III. Germany's World-Policy ... 45
IV. Morocco : The Bagdad Railway . . 68
V. Alsace-Lorraine . . . . -91
VI. The Eastern Question (1908— . 1151913)
VI^ The Crisis of 19 . . . .14 134
VIII. The Rupture ..... 162
Appendix
I. Ship-Building Programmes of England,
Germany, and France (1905— .14) 189
11. German Plans in South-West Africa . 190
Index....... 195