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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931

Adam Tooze

How did the First World War and the rise of American power rebuild the global order, and why did the effort to keep it fall apart?

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Author
Adam Tooze

Why read it

  • You will see how a war changes not just borders but who holds power and who pays for it
  • You will understand why a coalition of powers can fall apart piece by piece, and what follows
  • You will learn why alliances rest on money and commitment as well as military force

Who it is for

  • A policy or business person tracking great power rivalry
  • Someone who wants to understand how the twentieth century went wrong
  • A student who knows the war but not what followed

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Deluge: The Remaking of World Order
  3. ONE
  4. The Eurasian Crisis
  5. War in the Balance
  6. Peace without Victory
  7. The War Grave of Russian Democracy
  8. China Joins a World at War
  9. Brest-Litovsk
  10. Making a Brutal Peace
  11. The World Come Apart
  12. Intervention
  13. TWO
  14. Winning a Democratic Victory
  15. Energizing the Entente
  16. The Arsenals of Democracy
  17. Armistice: Setting the Wilsonian Script
  18. Democracy Under Pressure
  19. THREE
  20. The Unfinished Peace
  21. A Patchwork World Order
  22. ‘The Truth About the Treaty’
  23. Reparations
  24. Compliance in Europe
  25. Compliance in Asia
  26. The Fiasco of Wilsonianism
  27. FOUR
  28. The Search for a New Order
  29. The Great Deflation
  30. Crisis of Empire
  31. A Conference in Washington
  32. Reinventing Communism
  33. Genoa: The Failure of British Hegemony
  34. Europe on the Brink
  35. The New Politics of War and Peace
  36. The Great Depression
  37. Conclusion
  38. Raising the Stakes
  39. Photographs

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