TY  - BOOK
AU  - Emmerson,Charles
TI  - 1913: the world before the Great War 
SN  - 9781847922267
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - The Bodley Head
KW  - Nineteen thirteen, A.D
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - SOCIAL & CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Most retrospective accounts of the world in 1913 reduce it to either its most frivolous features - last bright summers in grand aristocratic residences - or to its most destructive ones: the rivalries of great European powers, rumbling social unrest in Russia and the angst of Viennese coffee houses. The portraits that result are dominated either by the faded pastels of aristocratic indulgence or the undifferentiated blackness of a world on the brink of the abyss. The true nature of the times - optimistic, modern and internationalist, as much as pessimistic, archaic and nationalist - is lost. 1913 paints a coherent picture without skimming over differences, or ignoring contradictions. Through the stories of cities from Detroit to Bombay, Winnipeg to Durban, Tokyo to Algiers, Charles Emmerson reveals a year in which a truly global society was emerging for the first time in human history
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