Empires at war
Subtitle: 1911-1923
By: edited by Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela
Edition: First edition.
Series: The Greater War; Greater war
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780198702511; 9780198734932
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Modern History; Imperialism; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela; title: The Ottoman Empire / Mustafa Aksakal; title: The Italian empire / Richard Bosworth and Giuseppe Finaldi; title: The German empire / Heather Jones; title: Austria-Hungary / Peter Haslinger; title: The Russian empire / Joshua Sanborn; title: The French empire / Richard S. Fogarty; title: British imperial Africa / Bill Nasson; title: The Dominions, Ireland, and India / Stephen Garton; title: The Portuguese empire / Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses; title: The Japanese empire / Frederick R. Dickinson; title: China and empire / Xu Guoqi; title: The United States empire / Christopher Capozzola; title: Empires at the Paris Peace Conference / Leonard V. Smith.