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The First World War: an agrarian interpretation
Avner Offer
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Frontmatter
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List of Plates (page xv)
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List of Figures (page xvi)
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List of Tables (page xvii)
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Abbreviations (page xviii)
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Introduction: Economic and Social Interpretation of the First World War (page 1)
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Part One. How was Germany defeated? (page 21)
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1. Society under Siege: Germany, 1914-1918 (page 23)
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2. Food Reform and Food Science (page 39)
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3. Did Germany really Starve? (page 45)
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4. Food and the German State (page 54)
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5. Collapse (page 69)
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Part Two. The Agrarian Bond: The United States, Canada and Australia (page 79)
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6. Late-Victorian Britain: An Import Economy (page 81)
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7. Causes of the Agricultural Depression, 1870-1914 (page 93)
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8. The Sod House against the Manor House (page 104)
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9. 'Like Rats in a Trap': British Urban Society and Overseas Opportunities (page 121)
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10. Coast, Interior and Metropolis (page 135)
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11. Wheat and Empire in Canada (page 144)
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12. Asian Labour on the Pacific Rim: The Struggle for Exclusion, 1860-1907 (page 164)
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13. Mackenzie King's Odyssey (page 176)
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14. Asian Labour and White Nationalism, 1907-1914 (page 198)
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Part Three. The Atlantic Orientation (page 215)
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15. Fear of Famine in British War Plans, 1890-1908 (page 217)
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16. Power and Plenty: Naval Mercantilism, 1905-1908 (page 233)
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17. The Atlantic Orientation: Hankey, Fisher and Esher (page 244)
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18. The Dominion Dimension (page 264)
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19. Morality and Admiralty: 'Jacky' Fisher, Economic Warfare and International Law (page 270)
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20. Blockade and its Enemies, 1909-1912 (page 285)
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21. Preparation and Action, 1912-1914 (page 300)
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Part Four. The Other Side of the North Sea (page 319)
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22. Economic Development and National Security in Wilhelmian Germany (page 321)
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23. Germany: Economic Preparation and the Decision for War (page 335)
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24. 'A Second Decision for War': the U-Boat Campaign (page 354)
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25. Shaping the Peace: The Role of the Hinterlands (page 368)
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26. Neither Dominion nor Peace: Germany after the Armistice (page 386)
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Conclusion (page 402)
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List of Sources Cited (page 409)
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Index (page 439)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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HJ | 34.1 (March 1991): 219-221 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-246X%28199103%2934%3A1%3C219%3ATFWWAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V |
JMiH | 55.1 (Jan. 1991): 115-117 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0899-3718%28199101%2955%3A1%3C115%3ATFWWAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y |
EHR | 43.4 (Nov. 1990): 764-765 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0117%28199011%292%3A43%3A4%3C764%3ATFWWAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 |
JEH | 50.4 (Dec. 1990): 959-960 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28199012%2950%3A4%3C959%3ATFWWAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 |
EHR | 106.419 (April 1991): 418-420 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199104%29106%3A419%3C418%3ATFWWAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X |
AHR | 96.5 (Dec. 1991): 1524-1525 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199112%2996%3A5%3C1524%3ATFWWAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 |
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Published: c1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780198219460 (hardcover)
- 9780198202790 (paper)