Empires at war, 1911-1923 / edited by Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela.
Gerwarth, Robert, editor.; Manela, Erez, editor.
2014
D521 .E48 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Empires at war, 1911-1923 / edited by Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela.
ISBN 9780198702511
0198702515
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Language English
Description x, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number D521 .E48 2014
Summary " Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the war beyond the generally-accepted 1914-1918 timeline, and as a global war between empires, rather than a European war between nation-states. The volume expands the story of the war both in time and space to include the violent conflicts that preceded and followed World War I, from the 1911 Italian invasion of Libya to the massive violence that followed the collapse of the Ottoman, Russian, and Austrian empires until 1923. It argues that the traditional focus on the period between August 1914 and November 1918 makes more sense for the victorious western front powers ( notably Britain and France ), than it does for much of Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe or for those colonial troops whose demobilization did not begin in November 1918. The paroxysm of 1914-18 has to be seen in the wider context of armed imperial conflict that began in 1911 and did not end until 1923. Finally, the volume shows how the war set the stage for the collapse not only of specific empires but of the imperial world order writ large. " -- The last page of book jacket cover.
Note " Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the war beyond the generally-accepted 1914-1918 timeline, and as a global war between empires, rather than a European war between nation-states. The volume expands the story of the war both in time and space to include the violent conflicts that preceded and followed World War I, from the 1911 Italian invasion of Libya to the massive violence that followed the collapse of the Ottoman, Russian, and Austrian empires until 1923. It argues that the traditional focus on the period between August 1914 and November 1918 makes more sense for the victorious western front powers ( notably Britain and France ), than it does for much of Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe or for those colonial troops whose demobilization did not begin in November 1918. The paroxysm of 1914-18 has to be seen in the wider context of armed imperial conflict that began in 1911 and did not end until 1923. Finally, the volume shows how the war set the stage for the collapse not only of specific empires but of the imperial world order writ large. " -- The last page of book jacket cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Gerwarth, Robert, editor.
Manela, Erez, editor.
Series The Greater War
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Introduction / Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela
The Ottoman Empire / Mustafa Aksakal
The Italian empire / Richard Bosworth and Giuseppe Finaldi
The German empire / Heather Jones
Austria-Hungary / Peter Haslinger
The Russian empire / Joshua Sanborn
The French empire / Richard S. Fogarty
British imperial Africa / Bill Nasson
The Dominions, Ireland, and India / Stephen Garton
The Portuguese empire / Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses
The Japanese empire / Frederick R. Dickinson
China and empire / Xu Guoqi
The United States empire / Christopher Capozzola
Empires at the Paris Peace Conference / Leonard V. Smith.

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