Ebook: Who wanted war? The origin of the war according to diplomatic documents

Like all historical events, the present war depends, in some
measure, on causes ofaprofound and remote nature. Historians
will one day have to investigate the demographic, economic
and ethnic conditions owing to which occasions for conflict
seemed, for some time, to have been multiplying among the
peoples ; how the precarious state of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, the development of the Balkan peoples, the clearer
self-consciousness to which certain nationalities were awakening,
were bound, in a future more or less imminent, to determine the
reconstruction of the map of Europe ; finally, how from all
this there resulted a feeling of unrest and anxiety which prepared
the minds of men for war.