Globalizing the History of the First World War

Economic Approaches

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8955824
AutoresJamie Martin (0000-0002-9116-1103, Georgetown University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen65
Número3
Páginas838-855
Fecha de publicación2021-11-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x21000765
OpenAlexW3217640940
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas21

This historiographical review offers an overview of new approaches to the global history of the First World War. It first considers how, over the last decade, there has been a move to emphasize the war's imperial dimensions: in reconsiderations of the war in Africa, the experience of soldiers and workers from across Europe's colonial empires, and the German ‘global strategy’ of fomenting unrest within the Allied empires. It then suggests that new global histories of the First World War give further attention to its economic aspects, particularly in two ways: first, by recovering understudied global financial aspects of the war, including the effects of the 1914 financial crisis and wartime inflation on economies and societies far outside of Europe; and second, by investigating wartime histories of primary production, both in colonial territories and sovereign states in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. It argues that these approaches can offer an important corrective to common assumptions that the First World War led to a dramatic break with pre-war globalizing trends

Ancient history · Colonialism · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · First world war · German · Historiography · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Unrest · World history · World War II · African history and culture studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact