1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

by Charles Emmerson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610393805
• ISBN13: 9781610393805
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"