Empires in World War I by Richard S. Fogarty, Andrew Tait Jarboe - 9781350157040

Empires in World War IShifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict\nAuthor(s): Richard S. Fogarty, Andrew Tait Jarboe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350157040, 978-1350157040\nSynopsis\nSoon after the guns in Belgium and France had signalled the commencement of what would become the world's single most destructive conflict to date, the British, Ottoman, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, French and Belgian Empires were at war. Empires in World War I marks a turn away from the pre-eminence of the Western Front in the current scholarship, and seeks to reconstitute our understanding of this war as a truly global struggle between competing empires. Based on primary research, this book opens up new debates on the effects of the Great War in colonial arenas. The book assesses the effects of the war on Native Americans in the United States for example, as well as on the relationship betwee.