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
19 August 2015

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. It expands the story of the war both in time and space to include the violent conflicts that preceded and followed the First World War, 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 also presents the war as a global war of empires rather than a a European war between nation-states. This volume tells the story of the millions of imperial subjects called upon to defend their imperial governments' interest, the theatres of war that lay far beyond Europe, and the wartime roles and experiences of innumerable peoples from outside the European continent. Empires at War covers the broad, global mobilizations that saw African solders 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 writ large.

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: 232mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 462g
ISBN: 9780198734932
ISBN 10: 019873493X
Series: The Greater War
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 19 August 2015
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction ; 1. The Ottoman Empire ; 2. The Italian Empire ; 3. The German Empire ; 4. Austria-Hungary ; 5. The Russian Empire ; 6. The French Empire ; 7. British Imperial Africa ; 8. The Dominions, Ireland and India ; 9. The Portuguese Empire ; 10. The Japanese Empire ; 11. China and Empire ; 12. The United States ; 13. 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

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 * With contributions from this generation's 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 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 * 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 *