Re-fighting the First World War: Internationalism, strategy, and law

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Notes

¹ H. Strachan, The Origins of the First World War’, International Affairs 90/2 (2014), 429–39.

² H. Jones, ‘As the Centenary Approaches: The Regeneration of First World War Historiography’, The Historical Journal 56/3 (2013), 857–78.

³ I.V. Hull, A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2014).

⁴ Key works include H. Afflerbach and D. Stevenson (eds.), An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914 (Oxford: Berghan 2007); T.G. Otte, July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014).

⁵ D. Lloyd George, War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, Vol. I (London: Odhams Press 1938 edn), 38–40.

⁶ M. Ceadel, Pacifism in Britain, 1914–1945: Defining of a Faith (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1980); C. Pennell, A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012); M. Neiberg, Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2014).

⁷ S. Keefer, ‘“Explosive Missals”: International Law, Technology, and Security in Nineteenth Century Disarmament Conferences’, War in History 21/4 (2014), 445–64.

⁸ The key argument in this respect being Hull, A Scrap of Paper and also her Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2005).

⁹ Nicholas Lambert, Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2012).

¹⁰ I.V. Hull, ‘“Military Necessity” and the Laws of War in Imperial Germany’, in S. Kalyvas, I. Shapiro, and T. Masoud (eds.), Order, Conflict and Violence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008), 352–77.

¹¹ For an important recent intervention on this topic see J. Goldrick, After Jutland: The Naval War in North European Waters, June 1916-November 1918 (Annapolis, MA: UNSI Press 2018).

¹² Hull, Scrap of Paper, 141–210.

¹³ See, for instance, J. Pitts, ‘Boundaries of Victorian International Law’, in D. Bell, (ed.), Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007), 67–88.

¹⁴ The most notable contributions being E. Greenhalgh, Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005) and Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011).

¹⁵ Quoted in Greenhalgh, Victory Through Coalition, 6.

¹⁶ Quoted in B. Liddell Hart, Foch: The Man of Orléans (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co 1932), 454.

¹⁷ J. Horne, ‘End of a Paradigm? The Cultural History of the Great War’, Past & Present 242/1 (2019), 155–92.