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Empires at War - 1911-1923 (Hardcover)
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Empires at War - 1911-1923 (Hardcover)
Series: The Greater War
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Empires 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 that the 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 in November 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 and Africa 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 in Jerusalem, 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.
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