The Seminal Catastrophe Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dylan Kornberg
This is a narrative history podcast that will cover the entire history of the First World War, from the geopolitical and cultural setup to the war in 19th century, all the way to the Treaty of Versailles which officially ended the war in 1919.
So no, I didn't die or anything. And better yet, I'm back! First, a bit of catchup.
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Happy (late...) Halloween!
Sources:
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Herwig, Holger H. The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood. World War I. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
“Battle Halts While Troops Fight Wolves.” Oklahoma City Times. February 15, 1917.
“Pack of Wolves from Russian Frontier Raid German Border Villages.” El Paso Herald. February 21, 1917.
“Russian Wolves.” New York Times. July 29, 1917.
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The climactic showdown of the First Battle of the Marne now comes to a decisive, bloody end.
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Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis: Vol. I. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Herwig, Holger H. The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood. World War I. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1922 Edition. Moltke, Helmuth von. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1922_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Moltke,_Helmuth_von
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“Now, as the battle is joined on which the safety of the country depends, everyone must be reminded that this is no longer the time for looking back. Every effort must be made to attack and throw back the enemy. A unit which finds it impossible to advance must, regardless of the cost, hold its ground and be killed on the spot rather than fall back. In the present circumstances no failure will be tolerated.”
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Brose, Eric Dorn. A History of the Great War: World War One and the International Crisis of the Twentieth Century. London: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis: Vol. I. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
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We return to the narrative on the Western Front, to see how the French and British will plan their last desperate attempt to halt the German advance on Paris at the beginning of September, 1914.
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Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
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This episode concludes our two week digression from the narrative. In it, we discuss some basic, fundamental military concepts and theories that have existed and been refined for millennia.
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Clausewitz, Carl von. On War (Third Edition). London: N. Trübner & Co., 1873.
Councell, Clara E. War and Infectious Disease. Public Health Reports Vol. 56, No. 12, March 21, 1941.
Dodge, Ayrault Theodore. Alexander: A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1890.
Dodge, Ayrault Theodore. Great Captains: A Course of Six Lectures. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1889.
Delbrück, Hans. Translated by Walter J. Renfroe, Jr. Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume 1. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975.
Smelser, Neil J. Theory of Collective Behavior. New York: The Free Press, 1962.
Encyclopedia Britannica. The Battle of Gettysburg. https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Gettysburg
Encyclopedia Britannica. World War I: Killed, Wounded, and Missing. https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/Killed-wounded-and-missing
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Instead of plowing ahead with the narrative, for the next couple weeks we're going to pull back and examine some fundamental concepts of military organization and practice. In this episode, we examine the unit structure and rank hierarchy of the Armies of the First World War.
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Steuben, Baron von. Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States. Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1792.
Boff, Jonathan. Military Structures and Ranks. British Museum, 2014. https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/military-structures-and-ranks
Columbia University. The Organization of Armies. https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/services/dropoff/schilling/mil_org/milorgan_99.html
Kast, Bernhard. British Infantry Division 1914/1916 – Visualization, Organization, & Structure. Youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Clh5C38Eg&list=PLv0uEimc-uN-PxBv8vwDDysUnrcnM_i93&index=10
Kast, Bernhard. German Infantry Division 1914/1918 – Visualization, Organization, & Structure. Youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3vTCOfKg0Y&list=PLv0uEimc-uN-PxBv8vwDDysUnrcnM_i93&index=9
WorldWar1.com. The Organization of the German Army, August 1914. http://www.worldwar1.com/sfgarmy.htm
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In the course of less than a week, the Russians went from looking like they could take Berlin at their leisure to having half their invasion wiped out, with the other half falling back in panic. Now Hindenburg and Ludendorff turn their army against the Russian forces still in German territory to kick them out once and for all.
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Buttar, Pritt. Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914. Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2014.
Gozdawa Turczynowicz, Laura de. When the Prussians Came to Poland: The Experiences of an American Woman during the German Invasion. New York: GP Putnam’s Sons, 1916.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hoffmann, Max. The War of Lost Opportunities. K. Paul, French, Trubner & Company Limited, 1924
Ludendorff, Erich. My War Memories: 1914-1918, Vol. 1. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1919.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
Wheeler-Bennet, John W. Hindenburg: The Wooden Titan. Edinburgh: MacMillan and Co., 1936.
Hindenburg, Paul von. Aus Meinem Leben. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1920. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30695/30695-h/30695-h.html
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Today we discuss one of the most pivotal battles of the First World War: the Battle of Tannenberg, as well as explore the personalities of and relationship between the rising team of Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
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Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
Wheeler-Bennet, John W. Hindenburg: The Wooden Titan. Edinburgh: MacMillan and Co., 1936.
Hindenburg, Paul von. Aus Meinem Leben. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1920. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30695/30695-h/30695-h.html
Simkin, John. Erich Ludendorff. Spartacus Educational. https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWludendorff.htm
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Today, we watch as the Russian and German Armies on the Eastern Front begin to dance around one another in 1914, upon a land that had seen wars between these two peoples for centuries, in anticipation for the great climactic showdown that may very well determine the fate of the entire war.
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Cartwright, Mark. Northern Crusades. https://www.ancient.eu/Northern_Crusades/
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Otte, Thomas G. The July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
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Today we take a look at the men who will lead the Russian Army at the outbreak of the First World War, as well as the Czar to whom they owed their allegiance. Long story short...they're not exactly the best and the brightest.
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Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
Nicholas, Grand Duke. Manifesto to the Polish People. https://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a=d&d=BOSTONSH19140822-01.2.9#
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Welcome back! Today we watch the Allied Armies stumble back from their defeats of August, 1914, as they try to figure out how in the hell they can turn back the German advance on Paris.
Sources:
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
Horne, John N. & Alan Kramer (2001) German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial, Yale University Press, New Haven, Appendix I, German Atrocities in 1914.
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Listen as today the Germans march through Belgium, making...rather a mess of things for the civilians, while the British try to stop them.
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Sources:
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
Davis, Richard Harding. With the Allies.Project Gutenberg eBook, 1914. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11730/pg11730-images.html
Horne, John N. & Alan Kramer (2001) German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial, Yale University Press, New Haven, Appendix I, German Atrocities in 1914.
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As the war breaks out in earnest along the Western Front, French generals will be taught a bitter lesson about modern combat, paid for with the lives of thousands of their men.
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Doughty, Robert. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
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A group of chocolate soldiers decide to humble the mighty German Army.
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Doughty, Robert. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Horne, Charles F. Source Records of the Great War. Boston: Stuart-Copley Press, 1923.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
Schlieffen, Alfred von. The Schlieffen Plan. German History in Documents and Images. http://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=796
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Boy, Europe sure had a lot of enormous armies in 1914, didn't they?
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Davis, Tenney L. The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives. Boston: MIT Press, 1941.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Nosworthy, Brent The Battle Tactics of Napoleon and his Enemies. London: Constable, 1997.
Westwell, Ian. An Illustrated History of the Weapons of World War One. Leicestershire: Anness Publishing, 2011.
Willmott, H.P. World War I. New York: DK Publishing, 2003.
Browne, Malcolm. 100 Years of Maxim’s “Killing Machine.” The New York Times Archive, November 26, 1985. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/26/science/100-years-of-maxim-s-killing-machine.html
Holmes, Richard. From Musket to Breech Loader: “Mad Minute.” BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/wars_conflict/weapons/musket_to_breech_10.shtml
House, E.M. Colonel House’s Report to President Wilson. https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Colonel_House%27s_Report_to_President_Wilson
McCollum, Ian. Heavy Machine Guns of the Great War. Forgotten Weapons:YouTube, 2015. https://youtu.be/0NN5WjWY48M
McCollum, Ian. Vickers Heavy Machine Gun. Forgotten Weapons: YouTube, 2016. https://youtu.be/HSG2Flnc1Rs
Population of the Major European Countries in the 19th Century. https://dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu/materials/population.htm
Storz, Dieter. Artillery. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/artillery
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Damned are the peacemakers; for they shall doom the world to Armageddon.
Sources:
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
Gordon, Hal. The Fallen Monarch: Remembering Tsar Nicholas II. Highbrow Magazine, 2017. https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/7472-fallen-monarch-remembering-tsar-nicholas-ii
Manning, Scott. The Treaty of London, 1839: The Complete Text. https://scottmanning.com/content/treaty-of-london-1839/
Schlieffen, Alfred von. The Schlieffen Plan.German History in Documents and Images. http://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=796
The British Library. Nicholas II of Russia. https://www.bl.uk/people/nicholas-ii-of-russia
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"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
Portraits of the Players in the July Crisis.
Sources:
Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York: Harper Collins, 2012.
Fischer, Fritz. Germany’s Aims in the First World War. English Translation: London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1967 (originally published in German, 1961).
Grey, Sir Edward. Twenty-Five Years: 1892-1916, Vol. 1. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925.
Keiger, J.F.V. Raymond Poincaré.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Lichnowsky, Karl Max. My Mission to London: 1912-1914. New York: George H. Doran Company. 1916.
Macmillan, Margaret. The War that Ended Peace. New York: Random House, 2013.
Neiberg, Michael. Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Otte, Thomas G. The July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Primary Documents: Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia, 23 July, 1914. https://www.firstworldwar.com/source/austrianultimatum.htm
The Willy-Nicky Telegrams. https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Willy-Nicky_Telegrams
Tsouras, Peter. The Kaiser’s Question: 1914. History Net. https://www.historynet.com/kaisers-question-1914.htm
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Boy, I sure do hope Austria-Hungary doesn't use the murder of their prince and princess to do something ridiculously aggressive and provocative.
Sources:
Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York: Harper Collins, 2012.
Fischer, Fritz. Germany’s Aims in the First World War. English Translation: London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1967 (originally published in German, 1961).
Keiger, J.F.V. Raymond Poincaré.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Macmillan, Margaret. The War that Ended Peace. New York: Random House, 2013.
Neiberg, Michael. Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Otte, Thomas G. The July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Berchtold, Count Leopold von. Austria’s Challenge Justified by Serbian Menace. From Current History, July 1928. http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/PDFs/Germany%20Incite%20Austria.pdf
Paléologue, Maurice. An Ambassador’s Memoirs. http://www.alexanderpalace.org/mpmemoirs/1.html
Primary Documents - Austrian Ministerial Council Meeting Minutes, 7 July 1914. https://www.firstworldwar.com/source/austriancouncilmeeting.htm
Viviani, René. The Literary Digest, Volume 48. First published June, 1914. https://books.google.com/books?id=KotNfPWeoO0C&pg=PA1565&lpg=PA1565&dq=rene+viviani+writing&source=bl&ots=okRTqo8jB9&sig=ACfU3U1QjnOEGiTC2lQbleHKHiXRwitGWg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDoOqYsP_oAhW-knIEHUjGB_IQ6AEwEHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=rene%20viviani%20writing&f=false
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The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary has been murdered. I sure do hope that nobody in Vienna or Berlin overreacts to this.
Sources:
Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York: Harper Collins, 2012.
Fischer, Fritz. Germany’s Aims in the First World War. English Translation: London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1967 (originally published in German, 1961).
Macmillan, Margaret. The War that Ended Peace. New York: Random House, 2013.
Neiberg, Michael. Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Otte, Thomas G. The July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Hoyos, Count Alexander von. Russia Chief Culprit in Precipitation of World War. From Current History, July 1928. http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/PDFs/Germany%20Incite%20Austria.pdf
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Today we cover what is probably the most famous assassination in history: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Macmillan, Margaret. The War that Ended Peace. New York: Random House, 2013.
Neiberg, Michael. Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Otte, Thomas G. The July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Roider, Karl. The Encylcopedia of World War 1: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
Jevtic, Borijove. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand
Harrach, Count Franz von. Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s Assassination, 28 June, 1914. https://www.firstworldwar.com/source/harrachmemoir.htm
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Today we discuss the history of 19th century European colonialism.
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Sources:
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt Inc., 1968.
Baumslag, Naomi. Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus. Westport, CT.: Praeger Publishers, 2005.
Crankshaw, Edward. Bismarck. New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
Greenlee, James and Charles Johnston. Good Citizens: British Missionaries & Imperial States 1870-1918. Quebec: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999.
Hibbert, Christopher. The Great Indian Mutiny: India 1857. New York: The Viking Press, 1978.
Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. New York: Mariner Books, 1998.
Manning, Patrick. Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa: 1880-1995. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Morris, James. Pax Britannica: the Climax of an Empire. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968.
Wood, Alan. Russia’s Frozen Frontier: A History of Siberia and the Russian Far East, 1581-1991. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.
Melber, Henning. Genocide Matters: Negotiating a Namibian/German Past in the Present. 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322645315_Genocide_Matters-Negotiating_a_Namibian-German_Past_in_the_Present
Memorandum on the Census of British India: 1871-1872. https://ruralindiaonline.org/library/resource/memorandum-on-the-census-of-british-india-of-1871-72/
Pretorious, Fransjohan. The Boer Wars. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/boer_wars_01.shtml
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Between 1871 and 1914, the Great Powers of Europe took a short break from trying to kill one another. Let's take a look at what they did to occupy themselves in the meantime, shall we?
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Anderson, Margaret Lavinia. Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Cecil, Lamar. Wilhelm II, Volume 1: Prince and Emperor, 1859-1900. North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Crankshaw, Edward. Bismarck. New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
Halasz, Nicholas. Captain Dreyfus: The Story of a Mass Hysteria. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.
Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
MacMillan, Margaret. The War that Ended Peace. New York: Random House, 2013.
Wehler, Hans-Ulrich. The German Empire: 1871-1918. Hamburg, Germany: Berg Publishers Ltd., 1985.
Wright, Herbert. The Constitutions of the States at War: 1914-1918. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919.
Population of the Major European Countries in the 19th Century. https://dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu/materials/population.htm
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Today we discuss the monumental clash between France and the German states in 1870 known as the Franco-Prussian War.
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SourcesClodfelter, Michael. Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.
Crankshaw, Edward. Bismarck. New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
Wawro, Geoffrey. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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In the first supplemental of this series, today we take a look at the makeup, technology, and tactics of European armies roundabout 1870, at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.
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Griffith, Paddy. Battle Tactics of the Civil War. U.S.: Yale University Press, 1989.
Nosworthy, Brent The Battle Tactics of Napoleon and his Enemies. London: Constable, 1997.
Wawro, Geoffrey. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Henderson, Robert. Loading and Firing the British Army Baker Rifle, 1799-1815. Military Heritage Website. http://www.militaryheritage.com/bakerrifle.htm
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Today we discuss how and why a misread telegram will spark the most important war of the 19th century.
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Anderson, Frank Maloy. The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France: 1789-1901. Minneapolis: The H.W. Wilson Company. 1904. (pages 544 and 559)
Celestin, Roger and Eliane Dalmolin. France from 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Crankshaw, Edward. Bismarck. New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
Guyver, Christopher. The Second French Republic – 1848-1852: A Political Reinterpretation. Surrey: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. New York: Harcourt Brace, and Company, 1921.
Wawro, Geoffrey. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003.
Bismarck, Otto von. Excerpt from Bismarck’s “Blood and Iron” Speech (1862). http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=250&language=english
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This week we close our mini-saga on the Revolutions of 1848. Will the Springtime of the Peoples blossom into a flower of democracy, or be smothered by the winter of absolutism? Let's find out together, shall we?
Sources:
Rapport, Michael. 1848: Year of Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
Schjerve, Rosita Rindler. Diglossia and Power: Language Policies and Practice in the 19th Century Habsburg Empire.Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
A 12 pont, avagy „Mit kíván a magyar nemzet. https://marcius15.kormany.hu/a-12-pont-tortenete-2012
Leroux, Pierre. Individualism and Socialism.https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/pierre-leroux-individualism-and-socialism-part-1/
People’s Charter of 1838. https://www.marxists.org/history/england/chartists/peoples-charter.htm
Sophie of Bavaria: The Only Man at Court. https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/sophie-of-bavaria/sophie-of-bavaria-the-only-man-at-court/
Verfassung des Deutsches Reiches oder Frankfurter Reichsverfassung (Constitution of the German Reich or the Frankfurt Reich Constitution). 1849. http://www.documentarchiv.de/nzjh/verfdr1848.htm
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Today, the Revolutions of 1848 begin in earnest. When people in Europe find out about the Revolution in France, everyone else will decide that they want to join in the fun.
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Leipzig Correspondent. "Foreign Correspondence." The Economist. Volume VI, 1848.
Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: 1869. Translated by Saul K. Padover.
Molnár, Miklós. A Concise History of Hungary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Translated by Anna Magyar.
Rapport, Michael. 1848: Year of Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
Winkler, Anita. Citizens Take Heart! The First Public Speeches. Habsburger.net. https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/citizens-take-heart-first-public-speeches
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Starving people and angry soldiers had a thing or two to say about the government in France.
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Sources:
Coogan, Tim Pat. The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Fortescue, William. France and 1848: The End of the Monarchy. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2005.
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In 1815, Europe was dominated politically and militarily by five "Great Powers." In 1914, Europe would still be dominated by essentially these same great powers, who would launch the First World War. Who were these powers? What was their history, their culture, the political framework? Today, we take a look at these questions.
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Welcome to the Seminal Catastrophe Podcast! First, some Housekeeping.
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Today we discuss the diplomatic summit that was convened in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to redraw the map of Europe. Will this Congress of Vienna solve all the problems it came to solve? Will it just screw things up and make everything worse? Is it actually really complicated? Let's find out together!
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Whipple, Edwin Percy. Recollections of Eminent Men: With Other Papers. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886.
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Scupham, William. “Friends, Fellows, Citizens, and Soldiers”: The Evoluiton of the French Revolutionary Army, 1792-1799. Primary Source Volume V: Issue I. Indiana University, 2014.
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