German Diplomatic Documents 1871–1914 Volume 4

The Descent to the Abyss, 1911–1914

E.T.S. Dugdale

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040323427
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Originally published in English in 1931, this fourth and final volume of documents brings the reader to the brink of World War I. The despatches beg the question of whether war was inevitable and if so, could it have been postponed? The question of whether the British Empire needed to have taken part in it, and how far its action or inaction was responsible for the outbreak is also discussed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Translator’s Note
• Works Referred to
• Historical Introduction
• Naval Introduction
• Table of Contents
• I The Agadir Incident, 1911
• II The United States and the Far East, 1909–13 The Chinese Loan. Japan.
• III The German Naval Law, 1911–12. Efforts to maintain Good Relations
• IV The Italian Invasion of Tripoli, 1911–12
• V Lord Haldane’s Mission to Berlin and its Failure, 1912
• VI The Consolidation of the Triple Entente, 1912
• VII The First Balkan War, 1912
• VIII Baron von Marschall in London, 1912. The ‘Political Agreement’
• IX The Conference of Ambassadors in London, 1912–13
• X The Second Balkan War, 1913. Scutari and Albania
• XI The Third Balkan War, 1913
• XII Armenian Reforms in Asia Minor, 1913 The Liman von Sanders Appointment.
• XIII The Attempt at a Colonial Agreement, 1913–14
• XIV The Bagdad Railway Negociations, 1913–14
• XV Naval Negociations, 1913. The Naval Holiday Proposal
• XVI Naval Negociations, 1914
• XVII Colonel House’s Mission to Europe, 1914
• XVIII Efforts of Diplomacy to avert War, 1914. The Royal Visit to Paris, April 1914
• Index of Principal Personages
• Index