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1913 : In Search of the World Before the Great War. / Charles Emmerson.
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous featureslast summers in grand aristocratic residencesor its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the fear of revolution, violence in the Balkans.In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this prelude to war” narrative, and explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity. Traveling from Europe's capitals, then at the height of their global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and the United States, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South America, he provides a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, its...
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- ISBN: 9781610392570 (electronic bk)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2013.
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : PublicAffairs, 2013. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 3941 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 5140 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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