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The art of staying neutral : the Netherlands in the First World War, 1914-1918
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ISBN: 9789053568187 9053568182 9786610958221 9048503930 1280958227 1429454164 9781429454162 9789048503933 9781280958229 661095822X Year: 2006 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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The Art of Staying Neutral offers a fascinating insight into the problems and challenges associated with neutrality in an age of 'total war'. It explains how the Netherlands upheld and protected its non-belligerency during the First World War despite constant interference from its warring neighbours. Staying neutral was an artform that the Dutch managed to master through clever diplomacy, conscientious adherence to international laws, comprehensive mobilisation of its armed forces, regular patrols of its territorial boundaries, careful policing of its citizens, and a decisive measure of good fortune. The Art of Staying Neutral makes important contributions to the study of neutrality and the domestic history of the Netherlands in this seminal world event.


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Global War, Global Catastrophe : Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformations of the First World War
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ISBN: 1474275869 1474275885 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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The Hague Conferences and international politics, 1898-1915
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ISBN: 9781350061347 9781350061354 9781350061361 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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An age of neutrals : great power politics, 1815-1914
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ISBN: 9781107037601 1107037603 9781139794695 1139990241 1139985620 1316008592 1316006352 1316004090 1139794698 131601309X 1316001857 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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An Age of Neutrals provides a pioneering history of neutrality in Europe and the wider world between the Congress of Vienna and the outbreak of the First World War. The 'long' nineteenth century (1815-1914) was an era of unprecedented industrialization, imperialism and globalization; one which witnessed Europe's economic and political hegemony across the world. Dr Maartje Abbenhuis explores the ways in which neutrality reinforced these interconnected developments. She argues that a passive conception of neutrality has thus far prevented historians from understanding the high regard with which neutrality, as a tool of diplomacy and statecraft and as a popular ideal with numerous applications, was held. This compelling new history exposes neutrality as a vibrant and essential part of the nineteenth-century international system; a powerful instrument used by great and small powers to solve disputes, stabilize international relations and promote a variety of interests within and outside the continent.


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War, Myths, and Fairy Tales
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ISBN: 981102684X 9811026831 9789811026843 Year: 2017 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This exciting new collection examines the relationships between warfare, myths and fairy tales, and explores the connections and contradictions between the narratives of war and magic that dominate the ways in which people live and have lived, survived, considered and described their world. Presenting original contributions and critical reflections that explore fairy tales, fantasy and wars, be they ‘real’ or imagined, past or present, this book looks at creative works in popular culture, stories of resistance, the history and representation of global and local conflicts, the Holocaust, across multiple media. It offers a timely and important overview of the latest research in the field, including contributions from academics, story-tellers and artists, thereby transcending the traditional boundaries of the disciplines, extending the parameters of war studies beyond the battlefield.


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Global war, global catastrophe : neutrals, belligerents and the transformations of the First World War
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ISBN: 1474275877 1474275893 1474275850 Year: 2021 Publisher: London [England] : [London, England] : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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"Global War, Global Catastrophe presents the conflict as a global catastrophe that forcibly reshaped the international system and, with it, the futures of all the world's people. The authors identify nine defining moments that threatened the existing international order, radicalizing the war's conduct and globalizing its impact. These include the Russian revolutions of 1917, the United States' entry into the war and the signature of peace treaties, amongst others. Each of these 'tipping points' is described as a crisis of total war and each helps expand our definition of 'total war' to include all societies affected by the conflict, be they belligerent or neutral. Above all, the book shows that only by integrating neutrality into the existing history of the conflict can we fully understand what made the First World War such a globally catastrophic event. The book devotes a chapter to each tipping point and explains why these moments were so decisive in shifting global realities. This is an accessible and readable overview of the major trajectories of the international and global history of the conflict. It offers an innovative history of the First World War and an important alternative to existing belligerent-centric studies."--


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Global War, Global Catastrophe : Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformations of the First World War
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Year: 2022 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"Global War, Global Catastrophe presents a history of the First World War as an all-consuming industrial war that forcibly reshaped the international environment and, with it, impacted the futures of all the world's people. Narrated chronologically, the authors identify key themes and moments that radicalized the war's conduct and globalized its impact, affecting neutral and belligerent societies alike. These include Germany's invasion of Belgium and Britain's declaration of war in 1914, the expansion of economic warfare in 1915, anti-imperial resistance, the Russian revolutions of 1917 and the United States' entry into the war. Each chapter explains how individuals, communities, nation-states and empires experienced, considered and behaved in relationship to the conflict as it evolved into a total global war. Above all, the book argues that only by integrating the history of neutral and subject communities can we fully understand what made the First World War such a globally transformative event. This book offers an accessible and readable overview of the major trajectories of the global history of the conflict. It offers an innovative history of the First World War and an important alternative to existing belligerent-centric studies"-- Provided by publisher.


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Global war, global catastrophe: neutrals, belligerents and the transformations of the First World War
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ISBN: 9781474275859 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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War, Myths, and Fairy Tales
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ISBN: 9789811026843 Year: 2017 Publisher: Singapore Springer Singapore :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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This exciting new collection examines the relationships between warfare, myths and fairy tales, and explores the connections and contradictions between the narratives of war and magic that dominate the ways in which people live and have lived, survived, considered and described their world. Presenting original contributions and critical reflections that explore fairy tales, fantasy and wars, be they ‘real’ or imagined, past or present, this book looks at creative works in popular culture, stories of resistance, the history and representation of global and local conflicts, the Holocaust, across multiple media. It offers a timely and important overview of the latest research in the field, including contributions from academics, story-tellers and artists, thereby transcending the traditional boundaries of the disciplines, extending the parameters of war studies beyond the battlefield.


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The first age of industrial globalization : an international history 1815 - 1918
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ISBN: 9781474267120 9781474267090 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed in the maelstrom of the First World War. Through a combination of industrialization, technological innovation and imperial expansion, the industrializing powers of the world helped to create inter-connected global space that left few regions untouched. In ten concise chapters, this book relays the major shifts in global power, economics and society, outlining the interconnections of global industrial, imperial and economic change for local and regional experiences, identities and politics. It finishes with an exposé on the catastrophic impact of the First World War on this global system.The First Age of Industrial Globalization weaves together the histories of industrialization, world economy, imperialism, international law, diplomacy and war, which historians usually treat as separate developments, and integrates them to offer a new analysis of an era of fundamental historical change. It shows that the revolutionary changes in politics, society and international affairs experienced in the 19th century were inter-connected developments. It is essential reading for any student of modern global history.

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