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Today, 1913 is undoubtedly seen through the lens of 1914: as the this past year before a conflict that would shatter the global financial order and tear Europe aside, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the earth of that 12 months is reduced to its most frivolous features previous summers in grand aristocratic residences or its most detrimental ones: the unresolved rivalries of the fantastic European powers, the fear of revolution, assault in the Balkans. Within this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this prelude to conflict" narrative, and explores it as it was, in every its richness and intricacy. Vacationing from Europe's capitals, then at the elevation of these global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and america, the imperial locations of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and SOUTH USA, he offers a panoramic view of a global crackling with options, its future still undecided, its perspective still open. The globe in 1913 was more modern than we bear in mind, more similar to our own times than we expect, more globalized than ever before. The Yellow metal Standard underpinned global flows of goods and money, while mass migration reshaped the world's human geography. Steamships and sub-sea wires encircled the earth, along with new solutions and new ideas. Ford's first set up line cranked to life in 1913 in Detroit. The Woolworth Building gone up in New York. While Mexico was in the midst of bloody revolution, Winnipeg and Buenos Aires boomed. An era of petro-geopolitics exposed in Iran. China were awaking from its imperial slumber. Paris celebrated itself as the town of light, Berlin as the town of electricity. Full of fascinating characters, experiences, and insights, 1913: In Search of the World prior to the Great War brings a lost world vividly back to life, with provocative implications for how exactly we understand our history and how exactly we think about our future.
