The First World War: An Agrarian InterpretationIn this book Offer presents a new interpretation of World War I, weaving together the economic and social history of the English-speaking world, the Pacific basin, and Germany, with the development of food production and consumption. In the special field of United States history, Offer shows the effect of American agricultural power on world politics, both before and after Word War I. He describes how the social institutions of American agriculture undermined farming in Britain, and forced the British Empire to rely increasingly on overseas imports of food. Detailing the role of agrarian production and comsumption in British and German defense, Offer examines the moral and legal implications of setting up whole societies as strategic targets. |
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Economic and Social Interpretation of the First | 1 |
Part One How was Germany defeated? | 21 |
Germany 19141918 | 23 |
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Admiralty Agricultural Allies American armistice army Asian Australia Berlin blockade Britain British Burchardt calories Canada Canadian cent Chittenden Churchill College coast colonies Committee of Imperial Conference cost Declaration of London Dominions Economic History economic warfare Edwardian period Empire England Esher Europe exclusion exports farmers farming Fisher fleet food supply force Foreign Germany Germany's grain Hankey Hankey's harvest Hoover Hughes Ibid immigration Imperial Defence Imperial War Cabinet imports industrial Japan Japanese King labour land Laurier London Lord Esher Maurice Hankey McKenna migrants military million moral naval navy neutral Office Ottley overseas Pacific Papers peace political population prairie pre-war Prime Minister production Reginald McKenna rent Report Royal Royal Navy ships social society staple strategy submarine tariff Tirpitz Tirpitz plan trade United wartime wheat William Morris Hughes World wrote