Background
Lafore, Laurence Davis was born on September 15, 1917 in Narberth, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Armand and Anne (Shearer) Lafore.
(Focusing on the diplomatic history of Europe from 1919 to...)
Focusing on the diplomatic history of Europe from 1919 to 1939, Lafore asserts that World War II resulted largely from efforts of the European Powers to run affairs with institutions and ideas made obsolete by World War I. By 1919 the Great Powers of the nineteenth century were dismembered or exhausted, and the Great Powers of the twentieth century, Russia and the United States, lingered in the wings, unwilling to assume their new roles as arbiters of Europe's and the world's fate. The old diplomatic machinery no longer worked, and no one was capable of devising a means for re-establishing a balance of power. Even Churchill, the author points out, did many of the right things for the wrong reasons. The End of Glory provides an accessible view of interwar diplomacy and describes the tragic decades of the 1920s and 1930s with dramatic clarity.
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(In analyzing the causes of World War I without concern fo...)
In analyzing the causes of World War I without concern for the question of guilt, the author places emphasis on two central facts: first, that when statesmen and peoples took actions they knew might lead to war, they were not envisaging the catastrophe that the war became but rather a quick and limited war; and, second, that among the many conflicts that might have led to war, the one that did was the threat to the integrity of Austria-Hungary posed by Serbia and Serb nationalism.
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(In analyzing the causes of World War I without concern fo...)
In analyzing the causes of World War I without concern for the question of guilt, the author places emphasis on two central facts: first, that when statesmen and peoples took actions they knew might lead to war, they were not envisaging the catastrophe that the war became but rather a quick and limited war; and, second, that among the many conflicts that might have led to war, the one that did was the threat to the integrity of Austria-Hungary posed by Serbia and Serb nationalism. Title of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Williamson-Van Wyk, July 1914: Soldiers, Statesmen, and the Coming of the Great War—A Documentary History (ISBN 9781478622864).
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(In analyzing the causes of World War I without concern fo...)
In analyzing the causes of World War I without concern for the question of guilt, the author places emphasis on two central facts: first, that when statesmen and peoples took actions they knew might lead to war, they were not envisaging the catastrophe that the war became but rather a quick and limited war; and, second, that among the many conflicts that might have led to war, the one that did was the threat to the integrity of Austria-Hungary posed by Serbia and Serb nationalism.
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Lafore, Laurence Davis was born on September 15, 1917 in Narberth, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Armand and Anne (Shearer) Lafore.
Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1938. Master of Arts, Fletcher School Law and Diplomacy, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Fletcher School Law and Diplomacy, 1950.
Member of faculty, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1940-1942; with, Department State, 1942-1943; with, Office of War Information, 1943-1944; assistant press attache, American embassy, Paris, 1944-1946; research associate, ECA, 1948; member of faculty, Swarthmore College, 1946-1967; professor of history, Swarthmore College, 1960-1967; visiting professor, U. Iowa, 1967-1968; professor of history, U. Iowa, 1969-1985; department chairman, U. Iowa, 1974-1977. Member Iowa State History Board, 1979-1982.
(In analyzing the causes of World War I without concern fo...)
(In analyzing the causes of World War I without concern fo...)
(In analyzing the causes of World War I without concern fo...)
(Focusing on the diplomatic history of Europe from 1919 to...)
(Many black and white photographs taken by the authors gra...)
(History, World War I, European and American History, Wold...)
(An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I)
Member American History Society, Conference British Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Upsilon.