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The deluge : the Great War and the remaking of global order 1916-1931
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The deluge : the Great War and the remaking of global order 1916-1931 / Adam Tooze.
ISBN
9781846140341 (hardback)
184614034X (hardback)
Publication
London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin, 2014.
Physical Description
xxiii, 643 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
In the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order was being born. This book tells the story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 17, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. The deluge : the remaking of world order
1. The Eurasian crisis. War in the balance
Peace without victory
The war grave of Russian democracy
China joins a world at war
Brest-Litovsk
Making a brutal peace
the world come apart
Intervention
2. Winning a democratic victory. Energizing the Entente
The arsenals of democracy
Armistice : setting the Wilsonian script
Democracy under pressure
3. The unfinished peace. A patchwork world order
'The truth about the Treaty'
Reparations
Compliance in Europe
Compliance in Asia
The fiasco of Wilsonianism
4. The search for a new order. The great deflation
Crisis of empire
A conference in Washington
Reinventing communism
Genoa : the failure of British hegemony
Europe on the brink
The new politics of war and peace
The Great Depression
Conclusion. Raising the stakes.
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