The First World War: 100th Anniversary Lectures, Gresham College (2014-2015)

The First World War: 100th Anniversary Lectures, Gresham College, London, 2014-2015.

• Christopher Clark, "Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914," 29 September 2014.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture One of Five.
  A very similar version of this talk was delivered as the 2014 Tans Lecture, Maastricht University, 12 November 2014: video; news article.
  The Maastricht University version has a question session while the Gresham College version does not.
  
  • Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, London: Allen Lane, 2012; New York: HarperCollins, 2013.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, London: Allen Lane, 2006; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006; London: Penguin Books, 2007.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, ebook; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931, New York: Viking (Penguin Group USA LLC), 2014. (First published as: The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931, London: Allen Lane, 2014.)
    [Publisher USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David Stevenson, "The Military History of the First World War: An Overview and Analysis," 18 November 2014.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture Two of Five.
  
  • David Stevenson, 1914-1918: The History of the First World War, London: Allen Lane, 2004; London: Penguin Books, 2005; USA title: Cataclysm: The First World War As Political Tragedy, New York: Basic Books (Perseus Books Group), 2004.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • David Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, London: Penguin Group, 2011; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• David Reynolds, "The Long Shadow: The Great War and International Memory, 1914-2014," 8 December 2014.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture Three of Five.
  
  • David Reynolds, The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century, London: Simon & Schuster UK, 2013; The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• Richard J. Evans, "Politics and the First World War," 17 March 2015.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture Four of Five.
• Mark Harrison, "War, Health and Medicine," 28 April 2015.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture Five of Five.

Another Gresham College lecture on this topic but not in this lecture series:

• Vernon Bogdanor, "Britain and 1914," Gresham College, London, 27 May 2014.
  Lecture webpage.

World War One: Panel Discussions

World War One: Panel Discussions

• John Milton Cooper, Margaret MacMillan, Jay Winter, "90 Years On: Legacy of the Great War," National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 22 November 2007.
  
  • John M. Cooper (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Margaret MacMillan (b. 1943), Wikipedia.
  • Jay Winter (b. 1945), Wikipedia.
• Neil Faulkner, Annika Mombauer, Gary Sheffield, Dan Todman, Paul Lay, "The First World War: The Debate," The British Library, 17 February 2014.
  Debate video and info at Centenary News.
  Debate video and info at History Today.
  
  • World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings, University of Oxford and Jisc.
  • Centenary News: First World War 1914-1918.
  • World War One, The British Library.
  • History Today.
  • Annika Mombauer, The Open University.
  • Annika Mombauer, "The debate on the origins of World War One," The British Library.
  • Annika Mombauer, "The Debate on the Origins of World War One," History in an Hour, 25 March 2014.
  • Annika Mombauer, The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus, London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group), 2002; 2013.
    [Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Neil Faulkner, his website.
  • Neil Faulkner, No Glory: The Real History of the First World War, London: Stop the War Coalition, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]
  • Neil Faulkner, A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals, London: Pluto Press, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Neil Faulkner, Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI, Yale University Press, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Gary Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton.
  • Gary Sheffield, A Short History of the First World War, London: Oneworld Publications, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Dan Todman, School of History, Queen Mary University of London.
  • Dan Todman, The Great War: Myth and Memory, Bloomsbury Academic, 2007.
    [Publisher, USA; Publisher, UK; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• John Charmley, Dominic Sandbrook, Max Hastings, Margaret MacMillan, Edward Lucas, "Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War," Intelligence Squared, 15 April 2014.
  Event webpage at Intelligence Squared.
  
  • John Charmley, Splendid Isolation?: Britain, the Balance of Power and the Origins of the First World War, London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1999; Faber and Faber, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Max Hastings, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914, London: William Collins (HarperCollinsPublishers), 2013; Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Random House), 2013.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Margaret MacMillan, The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, New York: Random House, 2013; The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War, London: Profile Books, 2013.
    [Publisher, USA; Publisher, UK; Google Books, USA edition; Google Books, UK edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• Mac Owens, Michael Neiberg, Kate Epstein, John R. Schindler, "New Thinking on the Origins of World War I," Foreign Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C., 29 April 2014.
  Event webpage at FPRI.
  
  • Mackubin Thomas Owens, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor, The Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C.
  • Mackubin "Mac" Thomas Owens (b. 1945), Wikipedia.
  • Orbis, FPRI's Journal of World Affairs, edited by Mackubin T. Owens.
  • Prof Michael Neiberg, The United States Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
  • Michael S. Neiberg: Author and Historian.
  • Kate Epstein, Department of History, Rutgers University - Camden, New Jersey.
  • The XX Committee blog by John R. Schindler.
• Christopher Clark, Dominic Lieven, Vojislav Pavlović, Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, "The Coming of World War I: What Kind of Failure?," The European Tragedy of 1914 and the Multipolar World of 2014: Lessons Learned, Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), Belgrade, 30 May 2014.
  CIRSD, Belgrade, Serbia.
  
  • Chris Clark (b. 1960), Wikipedia.
  • Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, London: Allen Lane, 2012; New York: HarperCollins, 2013.
    [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Dominic Lieven (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
  • Dominic Lieven, Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia, London: Allen Lane (Penguin Books), 2015. USA title: The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution, New York: Viking (Penguin Random House), 2015.
    [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Vojislav Pavlović, Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, University College, Oxford.
• Bret Stephens, Shaukat Aziz, Patrick C.P. Ho, Tsuneo Nishida, Kevin Rudd, N. Hassan Wirajuda, "The Lessons of World War I and the 21st Century East Asia," The European Tragedy of 1914 and the Multipolar World of 2014: Lessons Learned, Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), Belgrade, 31 May 2014.
  CIRSD, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Margaret MacMillan, "The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War," The Brookings Essay, Brookings Institution, 14 December 2013.
  • Bret Stephens.
  • Shaukat Aziz.
  • Patrick C.P. Ho.
  • Tsuneo Nishida.
  • Kevin Rudd.
  • N. Hassan Wirajuda.
• Dalija Hasanbegovic, Mustafa Cerić, Ivo Banac, Michael Ignatieff, Adam Roberts, David Rodin, Joel H. Rosenthal, George Rupp, "Sarajevo Symposium: Panel Discussion," The Crisis of 1914 and What It Means for Us Today, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Sarajevo, 27 June 2014.
  Sarajevo Panel Discussion information with transcript, audio, video.
  Sarajevo Symposium Program, 27 June 2014.
• Stephen van Evera, Isabel Hull, Adam Tooze, Christopher Lydon, "WWI: The War of the Century," Radio Open Source, 90.9 WBUR, Boston, 11 August 2014.
  The longer interview with Adam Tooze:
  WWI: Adam Tooze Reviews “The Deluge”, 17 August 2014.
• Kevin Birmingham, Howard Eiland, Eve Sorum, Christopher Lydon, "WWI: The Shock of the New," Radio Open Source, 90.9 WBUR, Boston, 18 August 2014.
  
  • Literary modernism, Wikipedia.
  • James Joyce (1882–1941), Ulysses (1922).
  • Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), Parade's End (1924-1928).
  • Virginia Woolf (1882–1941).
  • Kevin Birmingham, The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses, New York: The Penguin Press (Penguin Group USA LLC), 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kevin Birmingham, his website.
  • Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, Harvard University Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Eve Sorum, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
• Virginia Eskin, Gil Rose, Stephan Pennington, Loren Schoenberg, Christopher Lydon, "WWI: Remaking Music," Radio Open Source, 90.9 WBUR, Boston, 25 August 2014.
• Terje Rød-Larsen, Hanns Brattskar, John Baird, Edward Mortimer, Margaret MacMillan, "1814, 1914, 2014: Opening Presentation, Keynote and Discussion," Salzburg Global Seminar and International Peace Institute, Salzburg, Austria, 25-29 August 2014.
  Event information at Salzburg Global Seminar; YouTube playlist for the seminar 1814 1914 2014: Lessons from the Past Visions for the Future.
• John Lotherington, Richard Ned Lebow, Karel zu Schwarzenberg, Oliver Rathkolb, "The Sleepwalkers: Lessons from 1914," Salzburg Global Seminar and International Peace Institute, Salzburg, Austria, 25-29 August 2014.
  Event information at Salzburg Global Seminar; YouTube playlist for the seminar 1814 1914 2014: Lessons from the Past Visions for the Future.
• Max Larkin, Alan Taylor, Ann Thomas, Catharina Slautterback, "WWI, In 12 Photos," Radio Open Source, 90.9 WBUR, Boston, 29 August 2014.
  
  • Alan Taylor, "World War I in Photos: A 10-Part Series," The Atlantic, 2014.
  • Ann Thomas, The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography, National Gallery of Canada, 27 Jun 2014 - 16 Nov 2014.
  • Katherine Stauble, "Photography in the First World War: From Portraits to Propaganda," National Gallery of Canada Magazine, 16 July 2014.
  • Catharina Slautterback, "Over Here: World War I Posters from Around the World," The Boston Athenaeum, 10 September 2014 to 31 January 2015.
• Kamaal Haque, Craig Nation, Michael Neiberg, Karl Qualls, "World War I: The Causes," Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 08 September 2014.
  Event information at Clarke Forum, Dickinson College.
• Wendy Moffat, Dominique Laurent, David Commins, Crystal Moten, Douglas Mastriano, "World War I: The Consequences," Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 09 September 2014.
  Event information at Clarke Forum, Dickinson College.
• Harold Evans, A. Scott Berg, Kati Marton, Sean McMeekin, Jane Harman, "World War One: What Were They Thinking? Lessons From the Catastrophe," The Wilson Center, Washington DC, 10 September 2014.
  Event webpage at The Wilson Center.
  
  • A. Scott Berg, Wilson, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (Penguin Random House), 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Harold Evans, The American Century, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Harold Evans and others, They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kati Marton, The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kati Marton, Paris: A Love Story, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Sean McMeekin, July 1914: Countdown to War, New York: Basic Books, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• R. Nicholas Burns, Richard Rosecrance, Etel Solingen, Graham Allison, "Could World War I Happen Again?" Institute of Politics, Harvard University, 29 October 2014.
  Event webpage at the Institute of Politics.
  
  • R. Nicholas Burns, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • R. Nicholas Burns, Wikipedia.
  • Richard Rosecrance, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Richard Rosecrance, Wikipedia.
  • Richard N. Rosecrance and Steven E. Miller, editors, The Next Great War?: The Roots of World War I and the Risk of U.S.-China Conflict, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine.
  • Etel Solingen, Wikipedia.
  • Graham Allison, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Graham T. Allison, Wikipedia.
• "In Conversation: Jay Winter, John Milton Cooper and Michael Neiberg," National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 08 November 2014.
  National World War I Museum and Memorial; YouTube channel; 2014 Symposium Schedule (PDF).
  
  • John M. Cooper (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Jay Winter (b. 1945), Wikipedia.
  • Michael S. Neiberg: Author and Historian.
  • The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996), Wikipedia.
  • The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, PBS.
  • Search YouTube for The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century.
• Graham Allison, Peter Gourevitch, Charles S. Maier, Thomas Weber, Alison Frank Johnson, "The Great WWI Controversy: Who Was to Blame? A Panel Discussion on the Centennial," Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 24 November 2014.
  
  • Center for European Studies webpage.
  • Graham Allison, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Graham T. Allison, Wikipedia.
  • Peter Gourevitch, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego.
  • Peter Gourevitch, Wikipedia.
  • Charles S. Maier, Department of History, Harvard University.
  • Charles S. Maier, Wikipedia.
  • Thomas Weber, University of Aberdeen.
  • Thomas Weber, Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Derek Penslar and Steve J. Zipperstein, "WWI and the Jews," Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF), 20 April 2015.
  
  • Derek J. Penslar, Jews and the Military: A History, Princeton University Press, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Derek Penslar (b. 1958), Wikipedia.
  • Derek J. Penslar, Department of History, University of Toronto.
  • Professor Derek J. Penslar, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.
  • Steve Zipperstein, Department of History, Stanford University.
  • Steve Zipperstein, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University.
• Jaacob Dweck, Jay Lockenour, Paul Steege, "A Postshow Panel on World War One and Jews in Germany," Iron Age Theatre, Philadelphia, September 2015.

"Is Mercantilism Doomed to Fail? China, Germany, and Japan and the Exhaustion of Debtor Countries," INET Berlin, 13 April 2012

"Is Mercantilism Doomed to Fail? China, Germany, and Japan and the Exhaustion of Debtor Countries" was a session at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) meeting in Berlin, 12-14 April 2012. For further details on the meeting, the speakers, and other sessions on other topics see the Program.

Part One: Paul Davidson
Watch it on YouTube.
Paul Davidson, Wikipedia. Download Davidson's paper [PDF].

Part Two: Heiner Flassbeck
Watch it on YouTube.
Heiner Flassbeck, INET.

Part Three: Norbert Walter
Watch it on YouTube.
Norbert Walter, INET. Download Walter's paper [PDF]. Download Walter's slides [PDF].

Part Four: Joseph Stiglitz
Watch it on YouTube.
Joseph Stiglitz, Wikipedia. Download Stiglitz's slides [PDF].

Part Five: Discussion and Q&A
Watch it on YouTube.

Some of the speakers in the above talks refer to a talk earlier that day by Paul Martin (Finance Minister 1993-2002 and Prime Minister 2003-2006 of Canada):

Keynote Address: Reflections on the Politics of Deficit Reduction
Watch it on YouTube.
Paul Martin, Wikipedia.

Hugh Hendry, 25 October 2012

Hugh Hendry at The Economist's Buttonwood Gathering on 25 October 2012:

via Naked Capitalism.

Hugh Hendry, Wikipedia.

Wolff, Capitalism Hits the Fan (2009)

Capitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff


(video length: 1 hour, 45 minutes)

Note that during the Q&A session after his talk that Wolff states that he advises corporations. (I had previously observed that capitalists can learn much about how capitalism operates by listeding to marxists; this confirms that some do indeed listen.)

Wolff, "Global Capitalism," November 2012

Global Capitalism - November 2012 - Professor Richard D. Wolff



(video length: 1 hour, 51 minutes)

Some Richard D. Wolff links:
Professor Richard D. Wolff | Economics Professor, his website
Richard D. Wolff, Wikipedia
Richard D Wolff, YouTube channel
Democracy at Work .info, website mentioned in Wolff's talk

Miscellaneous comments: Wolff presents the compelling case for keeping one's wealth/property in the form of stocks and bonds as those are the property forms least subject to taxation (as long as the powers that be can keep them from becoming a target for taxation). The Capitalist can learn much about how Capitalism operates by listening to Marxists! I often find that the Marxists' indifference to offending the sensibilities of capitalists makes Marxists clearer expositors of how a capitalist economy operates, especially in contrast to the obfuscatory work of apologists for capitalism whether economists, journalists, whoever. Wolff mentions that the suppression of criticism of the economic system in the USA contributes to weakening it, a very good point. Wolff also makes pertinent comments on the failure of the U.S. political system due to its domination by the Democratic and Republican Parties which collaborate in avoiding public discussion of economic issues.