| Description |
1 online resource (485 pages) |
| Series |
Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 89 |
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Historical materialism book series ; Volume 89
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| Contents |
Introduction: the First World War and the making of modern world politics / Alexander Anievas -- Part I. Kladderdatsch! Capitalism, empire, and imperialism in the making and aftermath of World War I -- Germany, the Fischer controversy, and the context of war: rethinking German imperialism, 1880-1914 / Geoff Eley -- War, defeat, and the urgency of Lebensraum: German imperialism from the Second Empire to the Third Reich / Shelley Baranowski -- Capitalist peace or capitalist war? The July Crisis revisited / Adam Tooze -- Marxist theory and the origins of the First World War / Alexander Anievas -- The expansion of the Japanese empire and the rise of the global agrarian question after the First World War / Wendy Matsumura -- War and social revolution: World War I and the 'great transformation' / Sandra Halperin -- Part II. Reconfigurations: revolution and culture after 1914 -- European intellectuals and the First World War: trauma and new cleavages / Enzo Traverso -- Art after war: experience, poverty and the crystal utopia / Esther Leslie -- 'America's Belgium': W.E.B. Du Bois on race, class, and the origins of World War I / Alberto Toscano -- World War I, the October Revolution and Marxism's reception in the west and east / Domenico Losurdo -- Uneven developments, combined: the First World War and Marxist theories of revolution / Peter Thomas -- The First World War, classical Marxism and the end of the Bourgeois Revolution in Europe / Neil Davidson -- 'The new era of war and revolution': Lenin, Kautsky, Hegel and the outbreak of World War I / Lars T. Lih |
| Summary |
Cataclysm 1914 brings together a number of prominent leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many aspects of the origins, trajectories and consequences of the First World War and its impact in the making of modern world politics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence
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World politics -- 1900-1945.
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Politics and war -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Politics and war.
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World politics.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anievas, Alexander, editor, contributor
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| ISBN |
9789004262683 |
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9004262687 |
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1336099011 |
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9781336099012 |
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