The deluge : the Great War and the remaking of global order 1916-1931 / Adam Tooze.

• Introduction. The deluge : the remaking of world order -- 1. The Eurasian crisis. War in the balance -- Peace without victory -- The war grave of Russian democracy -- China joins a world at war -- Brest-Litovsk -- Making a brutal peace -- the world come apart -- Intervention -- 2. Winning a democratic victory. Energizing the Entente -- The arsenals of democracy -- Armistice : setting the Wilsonian script -- Democracy under pressure -- 3. The unfinished peace. A patchwork world order -- 'The truth about the Treaty' -- Reparations -- Compliance in Europe -- Compliance in Asia -- The fiasco of Wilsonianism -- 4. The search for a new order. The great deflation -- Crisis of empire -- A conference in Washington -- Reinventing communism -- Genoa : the failure of British hegemony -- Europe on the brink -- The new politics of war and peace -- The Great Depression -- Conclusion. Raising the stakes.

• In 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. This book tells the story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the Great Depression of the 1930s. 

Ämnesord

Historia  (sao)

Internationell politik  (sao)

History, Modern  -- 20th century. (LCSH)

World War, 1914-1918  -- Influence. (LCSH)

World politics  -- 1900-1918. (LCSH)

World politics  -- 1919-1932. (LCSH)

World War, 1914-1918  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

World War, 1914-1918  -- Economic aspects. (LCSH)

World War, 1914-1918  -- United States. (LCSH)

Balance of power  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Economic history  -- 1918-1945. (LCSH)

International relations  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Weltkrieg.  (gnd)

Weltordnung.  (gnd)

Första världskriget 1914-1918  -- influenser (sao)

Första världskriget 1914-1918  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Första världskriget 1914-1918  -- ekonomiska aspekter (sao)

World politics  (LCSH)

History  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

1900-talet  (sao)

Personnamn

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Klassifikation

D523 (LCC)

909.821 (DDC)

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