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Adam Tooze

The Deluge : The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order...

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Compelling historical narrative
New radical perspective
World-shaping events explored
Centenary publication timing
Renowned Penguin publisher
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WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR HISTORY FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the wars legacy continues to shape our world from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prizewinning author of The Wages of DestructionIn the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order was being born.Adam Toozes panoramic new book tells a radical, new story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The war shook the foundations of political and economic order across Eurasia. Empires that had lasted since the Middle Ages collapsed into ruins. New nations sprang up. Strikes, streetfighting and revolution convulsed much of the world. And beneath the surface turmoil, the war set in motion a deeper and more lasting shift, a transformation that continues to shape the present day 1916 was the year when world affairs began to revolve around the United States. America was both a uniquely powerful global force a force that was forwardlooking, the focus of hope, money and ideas, and at the same time elusive, unpredictable and in fundamental respects unwilling to confront these unwished for responsibilities. Tooze shows how the fate of effectively the whole of civilization the...

SKU: M9780141032184
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Binding: Paperback;672 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBG; Weight: 598 g; Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 31

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