1913
Subtitle: the world before the Great War
By: Charles Emmerson
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781847922267; 9781448137329
Subjects: Modern History
Other titles: Nineteen thirteen; World before the Great War
Description: Most retrospective accounts of the world in 1913 reduce it to either its most frivolous features - last bright summers in grand aristocratic residences - or to its most destructive ones: the rivalries of great European powers, rumbling social unrest in Russia and the angst of Viennese coffee houses. Proposing a different and more expansive portrait of 1913, Charles Emmerson reveals a year in which a truly global society was emerging for the first time in human history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-501) and index.
Table of contents: title: London: world city; title: Paris: the eternal, the universal; title: Berlin: powerhouse; title: Rome: the Pope's aeroplane; title: Vienna: shadows and light; title: St Petersburg: eastern colossus; title: Washington, DC: republic, nation, empire; title: New York: metropolis; title: Detroit: a model future; title: Los Angeles: boom!; title: Mexico City: Monroe's bequest; title: Winnipeg; title: Melbourne: Britain abroad; title: Buenos Aires: southern star; title: Algiers: the radiance of the republic; title: Bombay-Durban: tapestry of empire; title: Tehran: under foreign eyes; title: Jerusalem: Zion and its discontents; title: Constantinople: tides of history; title: Peking-Shangahi: waking slumber; title: Tokyo: rising sun; title: London: beyond the horizon; title: Epilogue: the afterlife of1913.