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Zusatztext Recommended Informationen zum Autor Robert Gerwarth is the author and editor of several books on the history of violence, including Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe (with Donald Bloxham, 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 0 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Mustafa Aksakal: The Ottoman Empire 2: Richard Bosworth and Giuseppe Finaldi: The Italian Empire 3: Heather Jones: The German Empire 4: Peter Haslinger: Austria-Hungary 5: Joshua Sanborn: The Russian Empire 6: Richard S. Fogarty: The French Empire 7: Bill Nasson: British Imperial Africa 8: Stephen Garton: The Dominions, Ireland and India 9: Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses: The Portuguese Empire 10: Frederick R. Dickinson: The Japanese Empire 11: Xu Guoqi: China and Empire 12: Chris Capozzola: The United States 13: Leonard V. Smith: Empires at the Paris Peace Conference