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Lädt ... The Deluge : The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 (2014. Auflage)von Adam Tooze
Werk-InformationenSintflut: Die Neuordnung der Welt 1916-1931 von Adam Tooze (Author)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Useful for it's narrow focus on importance of America in the concluding years of WWI - surprising parts about China/Japan and the financial side of things. For example, great section on Japan trying to put in a agreed point in a treaty about racial equality and being battered back - by England mostly, but also US. Rather loses the thread (for me) with the deep machinations about reparations, gold standard and America's selfish actions that ruined everything for everyone (why?). ( ) TL;DR: all of our problems are Woodrow Wilson's fault. A detailed analysis of the politics and economics from the middle of WWI until the fateful events of 1931 steered central Europe toward totalitarianism and made WWII inevitable. The author makes the perceptive observation how everything at this time gravitated around the United States and the policies it would pursue. The Entente was completely dependent on US finances and materiel; the central European powers understood how the United States would become a significant threat to their positions of power in the 20th century. The United States had no problem using their standing for their political and economic benefit, but did not exactly see itself as responsible for the world order. They wanted to promote some kinds of democracy in places like Europe; less so in Asia. It is fascinating to read about the various postures of Britain, France, and Germany, especially how there could have been a real future for the Weimar Republic if it hadn't been for a lot of the decisions made by the Entente. France is interested in its future survival; Britain, about its power. We all know how it all turned out. Very important analysis. Highly recommended. Adam Tooze fer hér í saumana á umskiptunum á völdum öflugustu þjóða heims 1916-31. Fyrsta árið fara Bandaríkin fram úr hinum hvað varðar framleiðslu og sölsa smám saman undir sig bæði pólitíska og fjármála stjórn heimsins. Tooze heldur því ennfremur fram að andstætt því sem oft hefur verið haldið fram um reynsluleysi og hálfvitahátt Wilsons Bandaríkjaforseta í utanríkismálum þá vann hann stöðugt að því að sætta Evrópuþjóðirnar við stríð án sigurs - sem þýddi í raun að þær stæðu uppi sem örmagna stríðsþjóðir án nokkurra kjarabóta eftir stríðið án þess að BNA þyrfti nokkru sinni að taka þátt. Þetta breyttist þó þegar hann neyddist til að segja Þjóðverjum stríð á hendur. Vel rannsökuð, framsett og fróðleg kenning hjá Tooze. Tooze retells some of the runup to WWI as well as the consequences of the peace, arguing that many of the things that set the stage for WWII were about responding to the rise of the United States as an unprecedented level of hegemon and the US’s simultaneous refusal to acknowledge its role. When the US demanded war debt repayment but didn’t promise France any help with ensuring its security against the Germans, for example, France occupied the Ruhr. Tooze also gives a fair amount of time to China and Japan. Un libro imprescindible para entender cómo Estados Unidos se erigió en árbitro del mundo tras la primera guerra mundial. La Gran Guerra de 1914-1918 transformó por completo el mundo en que vivimos, arruinando la estabilidad que los grandes imperios de Eurasia habían mantenido desde la Edad Media. Adam Tooze ha emprendido en este libro la ambiciosa tarea de analizar estas transformaciones, en un recorrido que parte de los campos de batalla y nos lleva hasta la Gran Depresión de los años treinta. El primer culpable de que se perdiera esta oportunidad de asentar una paz duradera fueron los Estados Unidos, que habiendo alcanzado un grado de poder nunca conocido en la historia, fueron responsables de que se firmara una paz sin victoria, y se desentendieron después de sus consecuencias. Pero no fueron los únicos; Tooze integra en su relato las revoluciones de Rusia y de China, la desastrosa política de Francia y Gran Bretaña o el desmoronamiento de la Alemania de Weimar en un libro que, en opinión de Max Hastings, lo acredita como un formidable cronista de una época crucial de nuestra historia. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and materiel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order. A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. From the day the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze delineates the world remade by American economic and military power. Tracing the ways in which countries came to terms with America's centrality--including the slide into fascism--The Deluge is a chilling work of great originality that will fundamentally change how we view the legacy of World War I"--
"A century after the outbreak of the First World War, a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world. The war would make a celebrity out of Woodrow Wilson and would ratify the emergence of the US as the dominant force in the world economy"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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