1913 : the world before the Great War by Emmerson, Charles instant download

1913 : the world before the Great War by Emmerson, Charles instant download

xiv, 528 pages : 24 cm, Most retrospective accounts of the world in 1913 reduce it to either its most frivolous features - last bright summers in grand aristocratic residences - or to its most destructive ones: the rivalries of great European powers, rumbling social unrest in Russia and the angst of Viennese coffee houses. Proposing a different and more expansive portrait of 1913, Charles Emmerson reveals a year in which a truly global society was emerging for the first time in human history, Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-501) and index, London: world city -- Paris: the eternal, the universal -- Berlin: powerhouse -- Rome: the Pope's aeroplane -- Vienna: shadows and light -- St Petersburg: eastern colossus -- Washington, DC: republic, nation, empire -- New York: metropolis -- Detroit: a model future -- Los Angeles: boom! -- Mexico City: Monroe's bequest -- Winnipeg -- Melbourne: Britain abroad -- Buenos Aires: southern star -- Algiers: the radiance of the republic -- Bombay-Durban: tapestry of empire -- Tehran: under foreign eyes -- Jerusalem: Zion and its discontents -- Constantinople: tides of history -- Peking-Shangahi: waking slumber -- Tokyo: rising sun -- London: beyond the horizon -- Epilogue: the afterlife of1913