The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrialorder.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History
| Title | : | The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 |
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (385 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670024929 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-13 |
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize - Nonfiction
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath
In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and matériel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrialorder.
A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. From the day the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze delineates the world remade by American economic and m
Editorial : Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize -- History
“For anyone seeking to understand how American predominance was achieved in the years after World War I, and why it catastrophically failed to keep the hard-won peace, Adam Tooze has written an essential book. Epic in scope, boldly argumentative, deftly interweaving military and economic narratives, The Deluge is a splendid interpretive history.” — The New York Times Book Review
“A grand and groundbreaking reinterpretation of World War I and its aftermath.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“A globe-spanning and wide-ranging examination of how America’s historic decision to join that epochal war changed the U.S. as well as the entire world order, ‘The Deluge’ is also a look at a past that is both terribly remote and hauntingly familiar.”—Salon
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