1913 In Search of the World Before the Great War

Name: 1913 In Search of the World Before the Great War
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ISBN: 9781610393805

ISBN-10: 1610393805

ISBN-13: 9781610393805

Edition: 2013

Authors: Charles Emmerson

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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…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 6/24/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

CHARLES EMMERSON was born in Australia and grew up in London. After graduating top of his class in Modern History from Oxford University he took up an Entente Cordiale scholarship to study international relations and international public law in Paris. The author of The Future History of the Arctic (2010), he writes and speaks widely on international affairs. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs).