1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
By Charles Emmerson.
Description
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 perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous featureslast summers in grand aristocratic residencesor its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the fear of revolution, violence in the Balkans.In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this prelude to war” narrative, ...
ISBN(s)
1610393805, 9781610393805