“Such invocations of fin-de-siècle manliness are so ubiquitous in the correspondence and memoranda of these years that it is difficult to localize their impact. Yet they surely reflect a very particular moment in the history of European masculinity. Historians of… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“For a time, the word Weltpolitik seemed to capture the mood of the German middle classes and the national-minded quality press. The word resonated because it bundled together so many contemporary aspirations. Weltpolitik meant the quest to expand foreign markets… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“The war of 1914–18 was the absolute negation of everything that Clausewitz had stood” — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“Such invocations of fin-de-siècle manliness are so ubiquitous in the correspondence and memoranda of these years that it is difficult to localize their impact.… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“For a time, the word Weltpolitik seemed to capture the mood of the German middle classes and the national-minded quality press. The word resonated… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“that? Masculinity is and was a broad category that encompassed many forms of behaviour; the manliness of these particular men was inflected by identities… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“There were a few small slips: after the first lunch on board the Tsar’s yacht Standart, the Kaiser drew Sazonov apart and spoke to… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
