The First World War

An Agrarian Interpretation

By: Avner Offer

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Paperback | 19 September 1991

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In this book, Offer presents a new interpretation of World War I, weaving together the economic and social history of the English-speaking world, the Pacific basin, and Germany, with the development of food production and consumption. In the special field of United States history, Offer shows the effect of American agricultural power on world politics, both before and after World War I. He describes how the social institutions of American agriculture undermined farming in Britain, and forced the British Empire to rely increasingly on overseas imports of food. Detailing the role of agrarian production and consumption in British and German defense, Offer examines the moral and legal implications of setting up whole societies as strategic targets.

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"Highly original and wide-ranging."--American Historical Review "Important reading for upper-division and graduate students interested in history, political and agricultural economy, and political science. Offer writes with an engaging style and musters an impressive range of evidence."--CHOICE "Dr. Offer's breadth of vision is remarkable, his scholarship is challenging, and his eye for the telling detail is keen. In range and in depth this book would be hard to equal; and its style and structure make it something of a rarity, for it is enjoyable as it is important."--Times Higher Education Supplement

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Computing & I.T.Operating Systems Warfare & Defence War & Defence Operations Battles & Campaigns

List of Plates	p. xv
List of Figures	p. xvi
List of Tables	p. xvii
Abbreviations	p. xviii
Introduction: Economic and Social Interpretation of the First World War	p. 1
How was Germany defeated?	p. 21
Society under Siege: Germany, 1914-1918	p. 23
Food Reform and Food Science	p. 39
Did Germany really Starve?	p. 45
Food and the German State	p. 54
Collapse	p. 69
The Agrarian Bond: The United States, Canada and Australia	p. 79
Late-Victorian Britain: An Import Economy	p. 81
Causes of the Agricultural Depression, 1870-1914	p. 93
The Sod House against the Manor House	p. 104
'Like Rats in a Trap': British Urban Society and Overseas Opportunities	p. 121
Coast, Interior and Metropolis	p. 135
Wheat and Empire in Canada	p. 144
Asian Labour on the Pacific Rim: The Struggle for Exclusion, 1860-1907	p. 164
Mackenzie King's Odyssey	p. 176
Asian Labour and White Nationalism, 1907-1914	p. 198
The Atlantic Orientation	p. 215
Fear of Famine in British War Plans, 1890-1908	p. 217
Power and Plenty: Naval Mercantilism, 1905-1908	p. 233
The Atlantic Orientation: Hankey, Fisher and Esher	p. 244
The Dominion Dimension	p. 264
Morality and Admiralty: 'Jacky' Fisher, Economic Warfare and International Law	p. 270
Blockade and its Enemies, 1909-1912	p. 285
Preparation and Action, 1912-1914	p. 300
The Other Side of the North Sea	p. 319
Economic Development and National Security in Wilhelmian Germany	p. 321
Germany: Economic Preparation and the Decision for War	p. 335
'A Second Decision for War': the U-Boat Campaign	p. 354
Shaping the Peace: The Role of the Hinterlands	p. 368
Neither Dominion nor Peace: Germany after the Armistice	p. 386
Conclusion	p. 402
List of Sources Cited	p. 409
Index	p. 439
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