Global War, Global Catastrophe: Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformations of the First World War

Author:   Maartje Abbenhuis (University of Auckland, New Zealand) ,  Ismee Tames (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781474275859


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   07 October 2021
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Author:   Maartje Abbenhuis (University of Auckland, New Zealand) ,  Ismee Tames (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.398kg
ISBN:  

9781474275859


ISBN 10:   1474275850
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   07 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Note on Sources List of Illustrations Introduction: A Total Global Tragedy 1. A World of War before 1914 2. Germany’s Invasion of Belgium and the Expectations of ‘Civilized’ War 3. Short-War Ambitions: The Global Importance of Britain’s Declaration of War 4. Long-War Realities: Economic Warfare and the Evolution of Total War in 1915 5. The ‘Barbarian’ Next Door: Total War at Home and Abroad in 1915 6. The Test of Endurance: Rethinking the War in 1916 7. Nothing Stays the Same: Revolutionary Transformations in 1917 8. The End of Neutrality? The Global Importance of the United States’ Declaration of War 9. Exit… 1918-1919 Select Bibliography Index

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Wonderfully well written and organized, this book is an excellent synthesis of recent scholarship and a major contribution to the existing literature on an important but under researched topic. It also has much to tell us about neutral states in our own world of great power competition. * Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I, USA * This book emerged from the desire of the authors to integrate neutral countries and neutrality into a general history of the First World War. It does this and much more. Above all, this book fully exposes the inescapability of the war's global influences and how 'the dynamics of destruction', to use the authors' words, affected every part of the world. This book is a revelation of the First World War's pervasive and destructive reach. * Glyn Harper, Professor of War Studies, Massey University, New Zealand *


Wonderfully well written and organized, this book is an excellent synthesis of recent scholarship and a major contribution to the existing literature on an important but under researched topic. It also has much to tell us about neutral states in our own world of great power competition. * Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I, USA * This book emerged from the desire of the authors to integrate neutral countries and neutrality into a general history of the First World War. It does this and much more. Above all, this book fully exposes the inescapability of the war's global influences and how 'the dynamics of destruction', to use the authors' words, affected every part of the world. This book is a revelation of the First World War's pervasive and destructive reach. * Glyn Harper, Professor of War Studies, Massey University, New Zealand * In this inspiring study, Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames have succeeded in presenting a truly global view of the First World War. Including states, peoples and individuals of both belligerent and neutral countries, they paint a comprehensive picture of this catastrophic period. * Prof. Dr. Wim Klinkert, Netherlands Defence Academy, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *


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Maartje Abbenhuis is Professor in Modern History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of several books on the international history of the nineteenth century and the First World War, including An Age of Neutrals (2014) and The First Age of Industrial Globalization (co-authored, 2019). Ismee Tames is Professor in History at Utrecht University and Senior Researcher at NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her most recent publication is Fighters across Frontiers: Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48 (co-edited with Robert Gildea, 2020).

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