The Abyss
World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization--A Selection from The War of the World (Penguin Tracks)
Excerpted from Niall Ferguson's sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I saw the birth of total war-fought between societies as much as armies-and must therefore be understood in terms of the financial crises it unleashed, the multinational empires it destroyed, and the hateful ideas it propagated.The most remarkable thing about the war, Ferguson shows us, is how shockingly unexpected it was. At a time when economic…
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- ISBN: 978-1-101-61620-8
- EAN: 9781101616208
- Produktnummer: 19314980
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'272 KB
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Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the bestselling author of numerous books, including High Financier, The Ascent of Money, and Civilization. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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