Ebook {Epub PDF} 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson

 · Charles Emmerson has set out to find the world as it was years ago, before the Guns of August [] and the theretofore unimaginable carnage unleashed by the first World War. Emmerson's world is one of empires, and it is these building blocks that he uses to construct In Search of the World Before the Great War/5. 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 /5(4). English. xiv, p.: 25 cm. "Today, is inevitably viewed through the lens of as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspective narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features User Interaction Count:

Today, is inevitably viewed through the lens of 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. So begins Charles Emmerson's In Search of the World Before the Great War. attempts to paint a picture of each of 20 world capitals in the year before the great war. How did they view the world? is a tour of twenty-three cities on six continents - Vienna to Jerusalem, Shanghai to St. Petersburg - in that watershed year. A tour of the world which was - and the world which might have been. The world of seems irretrievably lost now, distanced from us by the horrors of the Great War.

English. xiv, p.: 25 cm. "Today, is inevitably viewed through the lens of as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspective narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features. Roads to the Great War: In Search of the World Before the Great War. Now all roads lead to France and heavy is the treadOf the living; but the dead returning lightly dance. Edward Thomas, Roads. Tuesday, October 5, In Search of the World Before the Great War. 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.