000			03037cam a22003732 b4500
001			10982559
003			OSt
005			20210930191224.0
006			m d
007			cr n
008			140324e20140903ncua s|||||||| 2|eng|d
020			_a9780198702511
020			_a0198702515 (Trade Cloth) _cUSD 65.00 Retail Price (Publisher)
024	3		_a9780198702511
035			_a(WaSeSS)ssib019021535
037			_b00020142
040			_aBIP US _dWaSeSS _clcc _elcc
050		4	_aD521 _b.E46 2014
210	1	0	_aEmpires at War
245	0	0	_aEmpires at War _b1911-1923
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, Incorporated _cSept. 2014
300			_aXII,283P, _bill
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
506			_aLicense restrictions may limit access.
520	8		_aAnnotation _bEmpires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the war beyond the generally-accepted 1914-1918 timeline, and as a global war between empires, rather than a European war between nation-states.The volume expands the story of the war both in time and space to include the violent conflicts that preceded and followed World War I, 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 argues thatthe traditional focus on the period between August 1914 and November 1918 makes more sense for the victorious western front powers (notably Britain and France), than it does for much of central-eastern and south-eastern Europe or for those colonial troops whose demobilization did not begin inNovember 1918. The paroxysm of 1914-18 has to be seen in the wider context of armed imperial conflict that began in 1911 and did not end until 1923.If we take the Great War seriously as a world war, we must, a century after the event, adopt a perspective that does justice more fully to the millions of imperial subjects called upon to defend their imperial governments' interest, to theatres of war that lay far beyond Europe including in Asia andAfrica and, more generally, to the wartime roles and experiences of innumerable peoples from outside the European continent. Empires at War also tells the story of the broad, global mobilizations that saw African soldiers and Chinese labourers in the trenches of the Western front, Indian troops inJerusalem, 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.
521			_aScholarly & Professional _bOxford University Press, Incorporated
650			_xHistory _yworld
700	1		_aGerwarth, Robert
700	1		_aManela, Erez
773		0	_tOxford Scholarship Online History
856	4	0	_uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio10982559 _zFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History
910			_aBowker Global Books in Print record
942			_2lcc _cBK
999			_c1545 _d1545