In his 1980s book The Origins of the First World War, historian James Joll offers an explanation linking the entire social, political and economic spectrum of 20th C. ... First, he starts his search for a cause in the July Crisis of 1914. ... Every Great Power was "passing through a political and social crisis in 1914." ... The immediate cause, according to Joll, was to be found in the attitudes of 1914. ... Michael Gordon joined the causal debate with his article "Domestic Conflict and the Origins of the First World War," in which he compared pre-war Britain to Germany. ...

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