{"product_id":"misfire-paul-miller-melamed-9780195331042","title":"Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA new interpretation of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins of World War I that places focus on the Balkans and the prewar period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe story has so often been told: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, was shot dead on June 28, 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Thirty days later, the Archduke's uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, declared war on the Kingdom of Serbia, producing the chain reaction of European powers entering the First World War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMisfire\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul Miller-Melamed narrates the history of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins of World War I from the perspective of the Balkans. Rather than focusing on the bang of assassin Gavrilo Princip's gun or reinforcing the mythology that has arisen around this act, Miller-Melamed embeds the incident in the longer-term conditions of the Balkans that gave rise to the political murder. He thus illuminates the centrality of the Bosnian Crisis and the Balkan Wars of the early twentieth century to European power politics, while explaining how Serbs, Bosnians, and Habsburg leaders negotiated their positions in an increasingly dangerous geopolitical environment. Despite the absence of evidence tying official Serbia to the assassination conspiracy, Miller-Melamed shows how it spiraled into a diplomatic crisis that European statesmen proved unable to resolve peacefully. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContrasting the vast disproportionality between a single deadly act and an act of war that would leave ten million dead, \u003cem\u003eMisfire\u003c\/em\u003e contends that the real causes for the world war lie in \"civilized\" Europe rather than the endlessly discussed political murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Miller-Melamed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195331044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195331042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.47w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023","brand":"Paul Miller-Melamed","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982094270719,"sku":"9780195331042","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebf29b13-b1d4-4f7f-b2d8-4d8661985a4d.jpg?v=1683259194","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/misfire-paul-miller-melamed-9780195331042","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}