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The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Book information

Year
1991
ISBN
0198202792, 0198219466, 9780198202790, 9780198219460
LCC
D635
Open Library ID
OL21170844M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
7 MB (7751832 bytes)
Pages
480\239
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this book, Offer presents a new interpretation of World War I, weaving together the economic and social history of the English-speaking world, the Pacific basin, and Germany, with the development of food production and consumption. In the special field of United States history, Offer shows the effect of American agricultural power on world politics, both before and after World War I. He describes how the social institutions of American agriculture undermined farming in Britain, and forced the British Empire to rely increasingly on overseas imports of food. Detailing the role of agrarian production and consumption in British and German defense, Offer examines the moral and legal implications of setting up whole societies as strategic targets.

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