Empires at War: 1911-1923

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Robert Gerwarth (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for War Studies, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin) Erez Manela (Professor of History, Professor of History, Harvard University)

Empires at War

1911-1923

Robert Gerwarth (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for War Studies, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin), Erez Manela (Professor of History, Professor of History, Harvard University)

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Oxford University Press
15 September 2014

History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Colonialism & imperialism; First World War; Political structure & processes

Series: The Greater War

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.

If we take the Great War seriously as a world war, we must, a century after the event, adopt a perspective that does justice more fully to the millions of imperial subjects called upon to defend their imperial governments' interest, to theatres of war that lay far beyond Europe including in Asia and Africa and, more generally, to the wartime roles and experiences of innumerable peoples from outside the European continent. Empires at War also tells the story of the broad, global mobilizations that saw African soldiers and Chinese labourers in the trenches of the Western front, Indian troops in Jerusalem, and the Japanese military occupying Chinese territory. Finally, the volume shows how the war set the stage for the collapse not only of specific empires but of the imperial world order.

Edited by: Robert Gerwarth (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for War Studies Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for War Studies University College Dublin), Erez Manela (Professor of History, Professor of History, Harvard University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198702511
ISBN 10: 0198702515
Series: The Greater War
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 September 2014
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Gerwarth & Erez Manela: Introduction 1: Mustafa Aksakal: The Ottoman Empire 2: Richard Bosworth & Giuseppe Finaldi: The Italian Empire 3: Heather Jones: The German Empire 4: Peter Haslinger: Austria-Hungary 5: Joshua Sanborn: The Russian Empire 6: Richard S. Fogarty: The French Empire 7: Bill Nasson: British Imperial Africa 8: Stephen Garton: The Dominions, Ireland and India 9: Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses: The Portuguese Empire 10: Frederick R. Dickinson: The Japanese Empire 11: Xu Guoqi: China and Empire 12: Chris Capozzola: The United States 13: Leonard V. Smith: Empires at the Paris Peace Conference

Erez Manela directs the Program on Global Society and Security at Harvard University. He is the author of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (2007) and co-editor of The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010). He is currently completing a book on the global eradication of smallpox in the Cold War era.

Reviews for Empires at War: 1911-1923

"The First World War was a war not fought between nations but between empires European and Asian as well as ""blue-water empires"". This fundamental insight of the Greater War opens a powerful new perspective on the way the war was fought, the aims of the combatants, and the strains it imposed on their brittle systems of rule. The result is a major contribution to rethinking the First World War's impact on modern world (and not just European) history. * John Darwin, Oxford University * Empires at War is the best account we have of the global framework of warfare in the period including and surrounding the Great War. The value of this rich collection is in its forceful demonstration of how deeply imbedded nations were in transnational projects, traditions, experiences, and dreams. * Jay Winter, Yale University * With contributions from this generations most influential historians, Empires at War offers a stunning reappraisal of the First World War's global dimensions; revealing with brilliant clarity how imperialism reached its zenith, and then collapsed as a newly politicized ethnic and racial groups stepped forward to demand their rightful place in the world order. * Jennifer D. Keene, Chapman University * Empires at War makes and important and much-needed contribution to the history of the Great War by reminding us that it was a truly a world wide conflict and one which for many areas from Central Europe to the Far East continued well beyond the armistice of 1918. This strong collection of thoughtful essays expands our understanding of a pivotal moment of the twentieth century by showing the war's global impact and consequences. * Margaret MacMillan, Oxford University * Empires at War: 1911-1923 is a brilliant and important scholarly achievement that will engage academics and general readers alike ... a masterclass in how an edited volume should be put together * Richard Aldous, Irish Times * uniformly insightful essays * Maureen Healy, H-Net Reviews * Recommended * E. J. Jenkins, CHOICE *"