Offer has opened up a rich seam of enquiry, as well as producing a masterly and fascinating book...a magnificently original piece of research

• List of plates; List of tables; List of figures; Introduction: Economic and social interpretation of the First World War; Part I: How was Germany defeated?: Society under siege: Germany, 1914-1918; Food reform and food science; Did Germany really starve?; Food and the German State; Collapse; Part II: The Agrarian Bond: The United States, Canada, and Australia: Late-Victorian Britain - an import economy; Causes of the Agricultural Depression, 1870-1924; The sod House against the manor house; `Like rats in a trap' - British urban society and overseas opportunties; Coast, interior, and metropolis; Wheat and Empire in Canada; Asian labour on the Pacific rim: The struggle for exclusion, 1860-1907; Part III: The Atlantic ori entation: Fear of famine in British war plans, 1890-1908; Power and plenty: Naval mercantilism, 1905-1908; The dominion dimension; Morality and Admiralty: `Jacky' Fisher, economic warfare, and International law; Blockade and its enemies, 1909-1912; Preparation and action, 1912-1914; Part IV: The other side of the North Sea: Economic development and national security in Wilhelmian Germany; Germany: Economic preparation and the decision for war; `A second decision for war' - The U-boat campaign; Neither dominion nor peace: Germany after the Armistice; Conclusion; List of sources cited; Index

Offer has opened up a rich seam of enquiry, as well as producing a masterly and fascinating book...a magnificently original piece of research

• List of plates; List of tables; List of figures; Introduction: Economic and social interpretation of the First World War; Part I: How was Germany defeated?: Society under siege: Germany, 1914-1918; Food reform and food science; Did Germany really starve?; Food and the German State; Collapse; Part II: The Agrarian Bond: The United States, Canada, and Australia: Late-Victorian Britain - an import economy; Causes of the Agricultural Depression, 1870-1924; The sod House against the manor house; `Like rats in a trap' - British urban society and overseas opportunties; Coast, interior, and metropolis; Wheat and Empire in Canada; Asian labour on the Pacific rim: The struggle for exclusion, 1860-1907; Part III: The Atlantic ori entation: Fear of famine in British war plans, 1890-1908; Power and plenty: Naval mercantilism, 1905-1908; The dominion dimension; Morality and Admiralty: `Jacky' Fisher, economic warfare, and International law; Blockade and its enemies, 1909-1912; Preparation and action, 1912-1914; Part IV: The other side of the North Sea: Economic development and national security in Wilhelmian Germany; Germany: Economic preparation and the decision for war; `A second decision for war' - The U-boat campaign; Neither dominion nor peace: Germany after the Armistice; Conclusion; List of sources cited; Index

Offer has opened up a rich seam of enquiry, as well as producing a masterly and fascinating book...a magnificently original piece of research

• List of plates; List of tables; List of figures; Introduction: Economic and social interpretation of the First World War; Part I: How was Germany defeated?: Society under siege: Germany, 1914-1918; Food reform and food science; Did Germany really starve?; Food and the German State; Collapse; Part II: The Agrarian Bond: The United States, Canada, and Australia: Late-Victorian Britain - an import economy; Causes of the Agricultural Depression, 1870-1924; The sod House against the manor house; `Like rats in a trap' - British urban society and overseas opportunties; Coast, interior, and metropolis; Wheat and Empire in Canada; Asian labour on the Pacific rim: The struggle for exclusion, 1860-1907; Part III: The Atlantic ori entation: Fear of famine in British war plans, 1890-1908; Power and plenty: Naval mercantilism, 1905-1908; The dominion dimension; Morality and Admiralty: `Jacky' Fisher, economic warfare, and International law; Blockade and its enemies, 1909-1912; Preparation and action, 1912-1914; Part IV: The other side of the North Sea: Economic development and national security in Wilhelmian Germany; Germany: Economic preparation and the decision for war; `A second decision for war' - The U-boat campaign; Neither dominion nor peace: Germany after the Armistice; Conclusion; List of sources cited; Index