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The First World War Exploring World History Series Editors John McNeill, Georgetown University Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago As the world grows ever more closely linked, students and general readers alike are appreciating the need to become internationally aware. World history offers the crucial connection to understanding past global links and how they influence the present. The series will expand that awareness by offering clear, concise supplemental texts for the undergraduateclassroomaswellastradebooksthatadvanceworldhistoryscholarship. The series will be open to books taking a thematic approach—exploring commodities suchassugar,cotton,andpetroleum;technologies;diseasesandthelike;orregional—for example,IslaminSoutheastAsiaoreastAfrica,theIndianOcean,ortheOttomanEm- pire. The series sees regions not simply as fixed geographical entities but as evolving spatialframeworksthathavereflectedandshapedthemovementofpeople,ideas,goods, capital,institutions,andinformation.Thus,regionalbookswouldmovebeyondtradition- alborderstoconsidertheflowsthathavecharacterizedtheglobalsystem. Edited by two of the leading historians in the field, this series will work to synthesize worldhistoryforstudents,engagegeneralreaders,andexpandtheboundariesforschol- ars. PlaguesinWorldHistorybyJohnAberth CrudeReality:PetroleuminWorldHistory,UpdatedEditionbyBrianC.Black Smuggling:ContrabandandCorruptioninWorldHistorybyAlanL.Karras TheFirstWorldWar:AConciseGlobalHistory,SecondEditionbyWilliamKelleher Storey InsatiableAppetite:TheUnitedStatesandtheEcologicalDegradationoftheTropical World,ConciseRevisedEditionbyRichardP.Tucker The First World War A Concise Global History Second Edition William Kelleher Storey ROWMAN&LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder •NewYork•London PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 16CarlisleStreet,LondonW1D3BT,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2014byRowman&Littlefield Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Storey,WilliamKelleher. TheFirstWorldWar:aconciseglobalhistory/WilliamKelleherStorey.—Second edition. pagescm.—(Exploringworldhistory) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-4422-2680-7(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-1-4422-2681-4(pbk.:alk. paper)—ISBN978-1-4422-2682-1(electronic) 1.WorldWar,1914–1918.2.WorldWar,1914–1918—Environmentalaspects.3.World War,1914–1918—Technology.I.Title. D523.S7452014 940.3—dc23 2014008852 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ForRobinW.Kilson(1953–2009),humanistasemperoppugnansbella imperiaque. “Quatibilucemartemorer?”Virgil,Aeneid,XII.873–4. Contents Maps ix Preface xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Empires,Technologies,andtheOriginsofWar 5 3 EuropeanRivalries 13 4 TheCrisisof1914 29 5 TheWesternFront,1914–1915 35 6 TheWarinEasternandSouthernEurope,1914–1915 51 7 TheWorldWarinAfrica,1914–1916 63 8 TheWaratSea,1914–1915 73 9 TheWarintheMiddleEast,1914–1916 81 10 TheOffensivesof1916 93 11 NavalWarandtheU.S.Entry,1916–1917 107 12 TheStrainsofTotalWar 115 13 TheOffensivesof1917 129 14 AlliedEmpire-Building,1916–1918 143 15 TheWar’sEnd,1918 151 16 ThePeaceSettlements 161 17 UnderstandingandRememberingtheWar 173 vii viii Contents Notes 181 SourcesontheFirstWorldWar 187 Index 195
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