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Who Wanted War?: The Origin of the War According to Diplomatic Documents, 1915 (Classic Reprint)
Who Wanted War The Origin of the War According to Diplomatic Documents 1915 - Classic Reprint Author:Emile Durkheim Like all historical events, the present war depends, in some measure, on causes of a profound and remote nature. Historians will one day have to investigate the demographic, economic and ethnic conditions owing- to which occasions for conflict seemed, for some time, to have hr>.en multiplying among the peoples; how the precarious state of the Au... more »stro-Hungarian Empire, the development of the Balkan peoples, the clearer self-consciousness to which certain nationalities were awakening, were bound, in a future more or less imminent, to determine the reconstruction of the map of Europe; finally, how from all this there resulted a feeling of unrest and anxiety which prepared the minds of men for war.
But whatever may he the importance of those impersonal causes, they cannot act by themselves ; they can only produce their effect through the will of man. When war breaks out, it is because some Stale wishes for war and that State must bear the responsibility. If during tho last ten years we pas
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