1914-1918. Historia de la Primera Guerra Mundial
1914-1918. Historia de la Primera Guerra Mundial

Author: David Stevenson

Publisher: DEBATE

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 1082

ISBN-13: 8499923984

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El mejor libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial. En el verano de 1914, una oleada de violencia masiva se desató en Europa. La guerra que entonces empezaba tuvo repercusiones globales, destruyendo cuatro imperios y cobrándose millones de vidas. Este conflicto marcó incluso a los países victoriosos durante toda una generación, y todavía hoy seguimos viviendo bajo su sombra. En este riguroso análisis, David Stevenson reexamina las causas, el transcurso y el impacto de esta «guerra que acabará con todas las guerras», situándola en el contexto de su época y revelando sus conflictos ocultos. Su libro presenta una historia internacional, que incorpora las nuevas perspectivas ofrecidas por las investigaciones más recientes. Asimismo, aporta respuestas convincentes a la pregunta clave de cómo de desarrolló esta terrible lucha: respuestas que siguen siendo inquietantemente relevantes en nuestra época. Reseñas: «Sublime.» Ian Kershaw «Si solo quieres leer un libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial, que sea 1914-1918.» The Washington Times «El libro de David Stevenson es el bueno.» Niall Ferguson «Estahistoria del conflicto de 1914-1918 supera a todas las demás. Es rigurosa, erudita y completa.» The Independent «La historia más completa y accesible que jamás se haya escrito sobre la guerra.» The New Yorker «Un libro que perdurará.» The Daily Telegraph «No es solo un libro espectacular sobre historia, también es un poderoso mensaje de alarma.» History Today «Magistral [...] ambicioso [...] aporta nuevas perspectivas para la comprensión del conflicto y sus terribles consecuencias.» Literary Review «El pasado suele ser un país tan distinto al nuestro que necesitamos la orientación de alguien que ya lo haya visitado. Stevenson es una guía impecable.» London Review of Books

1914-1918
1914-1918

Author: David Stevenson

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780718197957

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Account of the major events of the First World War.

A World Undone
A World Undone

Author: G. J. Meyer

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2007-05-29

Total Pages: 818

ISBN-13: 0553382403

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world “Thundering, magnificent . . . [A World Undone] is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. . . . It will earn generations of admirers.”—The Washington Times On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. Praise for A World Undone “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . are lifelike and plausible. His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. . . . [A World Undone] has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured”—Los Angeles Times “An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.”—Steve Gillon, resident historian, The History Channel

Spain, 1914-1918
Spain, 1914-1918

Author: Francisco J. Romero Salvadó

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0415212936

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Spain 1914-1918 explores a crucial episode in the history of Spain and of Europe. Romero offers insightful analysis of a society in transition from tradition to modernity, and from oligarchy to mass politics.

The First World War
The First World War

Author: Antonello Biagini

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-11-25

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 1443886726

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This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University of Rome in June 2014, which brought together scholars from different countries to re-analyse and re-interpret the events of the First World War, one hundred years after a young Bosnian Serb student from the “Mlada Bosna,” Gavrilo Princip, “lit the fuse” and ignited the conflict which was to forever change the world. The Great War – initially on a European and then on a world scale – demonstrated the fragility of the international system of the European balance of powers, and determined the dissolution of the great multinational empires and the need to redraw the map of Europe according to the principles of national sovereignty. This book provides new insights into theories of this conflict, and is characterized by internationality, interdisciplinarity and a combination of different research methods. The contributions, based on archival documents from various different countries, international and local historiography, and on the analysis of newspaper articles, postcards, propaganda material, memorials and school books, examine the role of intellectuals and artists in the conflict, the issue of minorities and nationalities, the economy, and international relations and politics, in addition to specific case studies such as Russia and the Ottoman Empire, the Caucasus and the Middle East.

Spain 1914-1918
Spain 1914-1918

Author: Francisco J. Romero Salvado

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1134614497

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This work analyses the Spanish experience of the First World War in terms of the general crisis in Europe at this time. In Spain, as elsewhere, the impact of four years of devastating conflict resulted in ideological militancy, economic dislocation and social struggle. The author examines the slow decay of the ruling Liberal Monarchy during the war years, and the failure of the neutrality policy to save the existing regime. He looks at challenges to the Administration from: · the labour movement · the bourgeoisie · the army · international powers Romero shows a politically apathetic population galvanised by the war into fierce debate about belligerence or neutrality. The debate divides the nation and the new political awareness leads to a questioning of the Administrations authority. There is also vast economic and social change, as Spain exploits its privileged position as supplier to both sides of the war. These factors lead to galloping inflation, civil unrest and political turmoil, finally resulting in the revolutionary strike of 1917.

The Third Reich
The Third Reich

Author: Thomas Childers

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 1451651155

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“Riveting…An elegantly composed study, important and even timely” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) history of the Third Reich—how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose from obscurity to power and plunged the world into World War II. In “the new definitive volume on the subject” (Houston Press), Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, he found his voice and drew a loyal following. As his views developed, Hitler attracted like-minded colleagues who formed the nucleus of the nascent Nazi party. Between 1924 and 1929, Hitler and his party languished in obscurity on the radical fringes of German politics, but the onset of the Great Depression gave them the opportunity to move into the mainstream. Hitler blamed Germany’s misery on the victorious allies, the Marxists, the Jews, and big business—and the political parties that represented them. By 1932 the Nazis had become the largest political party in Germany, and within six months they transformed a dysfunctional democracy into a totalitarian state and began the inexorable march to World War II and the Holocaust. It is these fraught times that Childers brings to life: the Nazis’ unlikely rise and how they consolidated their power once they achieved it. Based in part on German documents seldom used by previous historians, The Third Reich is a “powerful…reminder of what happens when power goes unchecked” (San Francisco Book Review). This is the most comprehensive and readable one-volume history of Nazi Germany since the classic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Latin America and the First World War
Latin America and the First World War

Author: Stefan Rinke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-09

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1108132715

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Using a broad variety of textual and visual sources, Latin America and the First World War goes beyond traditional diplomatic history and analyzes the global dimension of the history of the Great War. Filling a significant gap in transnational histories of the war, Stefan Rinke addresses political, social, and economic aspects as well as the cultural impact of the war on Latin America and vice versa. Rinke's meticulous research is based on sources from the nineteen independent states of the entire subcontinent and promises to be the most comprehensive examination to date of Latin America before, during, and immediately after the war.

Continental Transfers
Continental Transfers

Author: Maximiliano Fuentes Codera

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-05-13

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1800733402

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Despite being separated by thousands of miles and shaped by distinctive national histories, the countries of Spain, Italy, and Argentina were intertwined in a variety of ways during the first half of the twentieth century. This collection brings scholars from each nation into conversation with one another to trace these complex historical connections over the period of the two World Wars. Deploying “Latinity” as a novel analytical framework, it gives a broad and dynamic perspective on cases of reciprocal exchange that include the influence of Italian Socialism on Hispanophone leftists; the roots of Argentine liberalism in Machiavelli and Spanish Nationalist thinkers; and the web of connections among Italian Fascism, Argentine Nacionalismo, and Spanish Francoism.