Empires At War - 1911-1923

Zusatztext Empires at War makes and important and much-needed contribution to the history of the Great War by reminding us that it was a truly a world wide conflict and one which for many areas from Central Europe to the Far East continued well beyond the armistice of 1918. This strong collection of thoughtful essays expands our understanding of a pivotal moment of the twentieth century by showing the war's global impact and consequences. Informationen zum Autor Robert Gerwarth is the author and editor of several books on the history of violence, including a biography of Reinhard Heydrich (with Donald Bloxham, 2011), Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe (2011); and War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence after the Great War (with John Horne, 2012).Erez Manela directs the Program on Global Society and Security at Harvard University. He is the author of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (2007) and co-editor of The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010). He is currently completing a book on the global eradication of smallpox in the Cold War era. Klappentext The first volume to examine the Great War as a global conflict between empires rather than a European war between nation-states, extending the study beyond the traditional 1914-1918 timeline. Zusammenfassung The first volume to examine the Great War as a global conflict between empires rather than a European war between nation-states, extending the study beyond the traditional 1914-1918 timeline.

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• Authors: Robert Gerwarth, Robert (Professor of Modern History and Gerwarth, Robert Manela Gerwarth, Erez Manela
• Assisted by: Robert Gerwarth (Editor), Gerwarth Robert (Editor), Erez Manela (Editor), Manela Erez (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2015
• EAN: 9780198734932
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873493-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The Greater War; Print on demand; The Greater War
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; First World War, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Colonialism & imperialism, Political structure & processes, Colonialism and imperialism, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Political structure and processes, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I