The First World War, an agrarian interpretation / Avner Offer.

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Main Author: Offer, Avner (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Economic and Social Interpretation of the First World War
  • How was Germany defeated?
  • Society under Siege: Germany, 1914-1918
  • Food Reform and Food Science
  • Did Germany really Starve?
  • Food and the German State
  • Collapse
  • The Agrarian Bond: The United States, Canada and Australia
  • Late-Victorian Britain: An Import Economy
  • Causes of the Agricultural Depression, 1870-1914
  • The Sod House against the Manor House
  • 'Like Rats in a Trap': British Urban Society and Overseas Opportunities
  • Coast, Interior and Metropolis
  • Wheat and Empire in Canada
  • Asian Labour on the Pacific Rim: The Struggle for Exclusion, 1860-1907
  • Mackenzie King's Odyssey
  • Asian Labour and White Nationalism, 1907-1914
  • The Atlantic Orientation
  • Fear of Famine in British War Plans, 1890-1908
  • Power and Plenty: Naval Mercantilism, 1905-1908
  • The Atlantic Orientation: Hankey, Fisher and Esher
  • The Dominion Dimension
  • Morality and Admiralty: 'Jacky' Fisher, Economic Warfare and International Law
  • Blockade and its Enemies, 1909-1912
  • Preparation and Action, 1912-1914
  • The Other Side of the North Sea
  • Economic Development and National Security in Wilhelmian Germany
  • Germany: Economic Preparation and the Decision for War
  • 'A Second Decision for War': the U-Boat Campaign
  • Shaping the Peace: The Role of the Hinterlands
  • Neither Dominion nor Peace: Germany after the Armistice.