![]() China appeared to be awaking from its imperial Mexico was in the midst of bloody revolution, Winnipeg and Buenos Aires boomed. The Woolworth Building went up in New York. Ford’s first assembly line cranked to life in 1913 inĭetroit. Steamships and sub-seaĬables encircled the earth, along with new technologies and The Gold Standard underpinned global flows of goods and money, while mass migration reshaped the world’s human geography. The world in 1913 was more modern than we remember, more similar to our own times than we expect, more globalized than ever before. Global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada andĪ panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, its future still undecided, its outlook still open. The United States, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South America, he provides In modern history from Oxford University, he took up an Entente Cordiale scholarship to study international rela-Īuthor of World War I: A Short History and World War II: A Short History Traveling from Europe’s capitals, then at the height of theirĬhatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs). It should stand in comparison with the much older classic, Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower.” ![]() Nous and majestic, rich in detail, and stunning in its depth of research, 1913 is a sweepingĪnd explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity.Īnd haunting portrait of the world on the edge of the precipice.” Lumi-Ītes the world of 1913 from this “prelude to war” narrative, “Every so often a book comes along that simply must be read. ![]() In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liber. 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. T O D AY, 1 9 1 3 I S I N E V I TA B LY V I E W E D 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. The author of The Future History of the Arctic, he writes and speaks widely on international affairs. Tions and international public law in Paris. Constantinople : tides of history - Peking-Shanghai : walking slumber - Tokyo : rising sun - London : beyond the horizon - The afterlife of 1913.Ĥ/C PROCESS + PANTONE 8401 GLOSSY LAMINATION + SPOT GRITTY MATTE UVĬ H A R L E S E M M E R S O N was born in Australia and grew up in London. London : world city - Paris : the eternal, the universal - Berlin : powerhouse - Rome : the Pope's aeroplane - Vienna : shadows and light - St. Winnipeg-Melbourne : Britain abroad - Buenos Aires : southern star - Algiers : the radiance of the republic - Bombay-Durban : tapestry of Empire - Tehran : under foreign eyes - Jerusalem : Zion and its discontents. Washington DC : republic, nation, empire - New York : metropolis - Detroit : a model future - Los Angeles : boom! - Mexico City : Monroe's bequest. 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."-Publisher's information. 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. Our perspective narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features. "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. ![]()
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