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1913 : In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 future still undecided, its outlook still open. The world in 1913 was more modern than we remember, more similar to our own times than we expect, more globalized than ever before. The Gold Standard underpinned global flows of goods and mon

Who reads 1913 : In Search of the World Before the Great War?

Author

Charles Emmerson

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781610392563

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Military History

Rating

3.81 / 5 (583 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14