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1913Charles Emmerson

1913

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 perspective narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features... 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 height of their global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and…

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6 editions
  • Other · English · 2014
    PublicAffairs · 544 pages · 9781610393805
  • Other · English · 2013
    Bodley Head · 528 pages · 9781847922267
  • Other · English · 2013
    PublicAffairs · 9781610392570
  • Other · English · 2013
    PublicAffairs · 548 pages · 9781306436953
  • Other · English · 2013
    Penguin Random House · 544 pages · 9780099575788
  • Other · English · 2013
    PublicAffairs · 526 pages · 9781610392563
Nineteen thirteen, A.D.Modern HistoryHistory, modern, 20th centuryTwentieth centuryNya tidenHistoriaWorld politicsGreat powers