Global War, Global Catastrophe

Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformations of the First World War

AvMaartje Abbenhuis,Ismee Tames

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Winner of the World War One Historical Association’s 2021 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. PrizeGlobal War, Global Catastrophe presents a history of the First World War as an all-consuming industrial war that forcibly reshaped the international environment and, with it, impacted the futures of all the world’s people.Narrated chronologically, and available open access, the authors identify key themes and moments that radicalized the war’s conduct and globalized its impact, affecting neutral and belligerent societies alike. These include Germany’s invasion of Belgium and Britain’s declaration of war in 1914, the expansion of economic warfare in 1915, anti-imperial resistance, the Russian revolutions of 1917 and the United States’ entry into the war. Each chapter explains how individuals, communities, nation-states and empires experienced, considered and behaved in relationship to the conflict as it evolved into a total global war. Above all, the book argues that only by integrating the history of neutral and subject communities can we fully understand what made the First World War such a globally transformative event.This book offers an accessible and readable overview of the major trajectories of the global history of the conflict. It offers an innovative history of the First World War and an important alternative to existing belligerent-centric studies.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-07
Mått:156 x 238 x 20 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Approaches to International History
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474275866
Utmärkelser:Winner of Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize, Honorary Mention 2021 (UK)

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Maartje Abbenhuis is Professor in Modern History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of several books on the international history of the nineteenth century and the First World War, including An Age of Neutrals (2014) and The First Age of Industrial Globalization (co-authored, 2019).Ismee Tames is Professor in History at Utrecht University and Senior Researcher at NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her most recent publication is Fighters across Frontiers: Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48 (co-edited with Robert Gildea, 2020).

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A fresh perspective on the First World War and its disastrous global reach… raises relevant, new historical questions, and, in the context of today’s heightened international tensions, calls for reflection on how a global order can produce a global catastrophe when major powers allow regional conflicts to escalate.

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AcknowledgementsNote on SourcesList of IllustrationsIntroduction: A Total Global Tragedy1. A World of War before 19142. Germany’s Invasion of Belgium and the Expectations of ‘Civilized’ War3. Short-War Ambitions: The Global Importance of Britain’s Declaration of War4. Long-War Realities: Economic Warfare and the Evolution of Total War in 19155. The ‘Barbarian’ Next Door: Total War at Home and Abroad in 19156. The Test of Endurance: Rethinking the War in 19167. Nothing Stays the Same: Revolutionary Transformations in 19178. The End of Neutrality? The Global Importance of the United States’ Declaration of War9. Exit… 1918-1919Select BibliographyIndex