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The Deluge - The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 (Paperback)
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The Deluge - The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 (Paperback)
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WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR HISTORY FINANCIAL TIMES
AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 On the centenary of the
outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation
of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam
Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction
In the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no
imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to
buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order
was being born. Adam Tooze's panoramic new book tells a radical,
new story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles of
the Western Front in 1916 to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The
war shook the foundations of political and economic order across
Eurasia. Empires that had lasted since the Middle Ages collapsed
into ruins. New nations sprang up. Strikes, street-fighting and
revolution convulsed much of the world. And beneath the surface
turmoil, the war set in motion a deeper and more lasting shift, a
transformation that continues to shape the present day: 1916 was
the year when world affairs began to revolve around the United
States. America was both a uniquely powerful global force: a force
that was forward-looking, the focus of hope, money and ideas, and
at the same time elusive, unpredictable and in fundamental respects
unwilling to confront these unwished for responsibilities. Tooze
shows how the fate of effectively the whole of civilization - the
British Empire, the future of peace in Europe, the survival of the
Weimar Republic, both the Russian and Chinese revolutions and
stability in the Pacific - now came to revolve around this new
power's fraught relationship with a shockingly changed world. The
Deluge is both a brilliantly illuminating exploration of the past
and an essential history for the present.
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