The Resource 1913 : in search of the world before the Great War, Charles Emmerson
1913 : in search of the world before the Great War, Charles Emmerson
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The item 1913 : in search of the world before the Great War, Charles Emmerson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- 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 features - last summers in grand aristocratic residences - or 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, and explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity. Traveling from Europe's capitals, then at the height of their global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and the United States, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South America, he provides a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, its ..
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (548 pages)
- Isbn
- 9781610392570
- Label
- 1913 : in search of the world before the Great War
- Title
- 1913
- Title remainder
- in search of the world before the Great War
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles Emmerson
- Title variation
- Nineteen-thirteen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 features - last summers in grand aristocratic residences - or 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, and explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity. Traveling from Europe's capitals, then at the height of their global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and the United States, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South America, he provides a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, its ..
- Cataloging source
- MERUC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Emmerson, Charles
- Dewey number
- 909.82/1
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D422
- LC item number
- .E66 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- History, Modern
- Nineteen thirteen, A.D
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General
- Label
- 1913 : in search of the world before the Great War, Charles Emmerson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- ocn843191955
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (548 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781610392570
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 022A3608-0CB1-4E5B-A800-2B411FDE30D7
- Label
- 1913 : in search of the world before the Great War, Charles Emmerson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- ocn843191955
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (548 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781610392570
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 022A3608-0CB1-4E5B-A800-2B411FDE30D7
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