Empires at War by Gerwarth, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Empires at War: 1911–1923 Copyright Acknowledgements Contents List of Contributors List of Maps List of Figures Introduction

MOBILIZING EMPIRES FOR WAR DISMANTLING EMPIRES, EXPANDING EMPIRES

1: The Ottoman Empire

‘A LESS ABRUPT AND UNFORTUNATE END’ A CURIOUS EVENT THAT HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO TARSUS THE OTTOMAN SPRING AND THE WARS OF 1911–1913 THE GREAT WAR AS GREAT OPPORTUNITY VIOLENCE AND VIABILITY CONCLUSION: THE SLOW END OF EMPIRE

2: The Italian Empire

LIBYA EAST AFRICA CONCLUSIONS

3: The German Empire

INTRODUCTION THE 1871 GERMAN EMPIRE THE WARTIME CONTINENTAL GERMAN EMPIRE THE GLOBAL GERMAN EMPIRE AT WAR CONCLUSION

4: Austria–Hungary

INTRODUCTION: THE HABSBURG MONARCHY BEFORE 1914 THE WAR THEATRE IN THE EAST AND THE HABSBURG MONARCHY NATIONAL MOBILIZATION AND IMPERIAL DESINTEGRATION HABSBURG SUCCESSOR STATES—NEIGHBOURS OR COMPETITORS? CONCLUSIONS

5: The Russian Empire

6: The French Empire

MISE EN VALEUR RESERVOIRS OF MEN APOTHEOSIS OR TWILIGHT OF EMPIRE?

7: British Imperial Africa

INTRODUCTION: SELF-DELUSIONS OF LOCAL NEUTRALITY CRUCIAL ASSETS AND SOME MIXED EXPERIENCES RESTIVENESS BENEATH WARTIME BURDENS MOBILIZING A MIXED BAG OF MEN HOSTILITIES HOSTILITIES—HARDER GOING INTERVENING TO KEEP A LID ON THINGS CONCLUSIONS: A SETTLING OF ACCOUNTS AND SOME LONGER SHADOWS

8: The Dominions, Ireland, and India

MOBILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS HOME-FRONT TENSIONS REIMAGINING THE EMPIRE

9: The Portuguese Empire

THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE IN 1914 MILITARY ACTIVITY IN ANGOLA AND MOZAMBIQUE, 1914–1918 AFTERMATH OF THE WAR: PARIS AFTERMATH OF THE WAR: PORTUGAL

10: The Japanese Empire

OPPORTUNITIES OF THE EAST JAPAN ENTERS THE FIRST WORLD WAR WARTIME GAINS FOR IMPERIAL JAPAN THE GREAT WAR AND THE FATE OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE CONCLUSION

11: China and Empire

12: The United States Empire

PROLOGUE: THE PANAMA CANAL, 1914 THE UNITED STATES EMPIRE AT THE OUTSET OF WAR MOBILIZING THE EMPIRE KEEPING ORDER: POLICING THE US EMPIRE EPILOGUE

13: Empires at the Paris Peace Conference

THE RISE OF THE SUCCESSOR STATE IN POST-IMPERIAL EUROPE THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE DISCURSIVE ASSAULT ON EMPIRE “EMPIRE IS WHAT STATES MAKE OF IT” CONCLUSION

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