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The First World War: an agrarian interpretation
Offer, Avner.
Year: c1989.
Publisher:  Clarendon Press. 
© Oxford University Press
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Frontmatter
List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction: Economic and Social Interpretation of the First World War
Part One. How was Germany defeated?
1. Society under Siege: Germany, 1914-1918
2. Food Reform and Food Science
3. Did Germany really Starve?
4. Food and the German State
5. Collapse
Part Two. The Agrarian Bond: The United States, Canada and Australia
6. Late-Victorian Britain: An Import Economy
7. Causes of the Agricultural Depression, 1870-1914
8. The Sod House against the Manor House
9. 'Like Rats in a Trap': British Urban Society and Overseas Opportunities
10. Coast, Interior and Metropolis
11. Wheat and Empire in Canada
12. Asian Labour on the Pacific Rim: The Struggle for Exclusion, 1860-1907
13. Mackenzie King's Odyssey
14. Asian Labour and White Nationalism, 1907-1914
Part Three. The Atlantic Orientation
15. Fear of Famine in British War Plans, 1890-1908
16. Power and Plenty: Naval Mercantilism, 1905-1908
17. The Atlantic Orientation: Hankey, Fisher and Esher
18. The Dominion Dimension
19. Morality and Admiralty: 'Jacky' Fisher, Economic Warfare and International Law
20. Blockade and its Enemies, 1909-1912
21. Preparation and Action, 1912-1914
Part Four. The Other Side of the North Sea
22. Economic Development and National Security in Wilhelmian Germany
23. Germany: Economic Preparation and the Decision for War
24. 'A Second Decision for War': the U-Boat Campaign
25. Shaping the Peace: The Role of the Hinterlands
26. Neither Dominion nor Peace: Germany after the Armistice
Conclusion
List of Sources Cited
Index
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Title: The First World War : an agrarian interpretation Avner Offer.
Author: Offer, Avner
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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Source Version: The First World War : an agrarian interpretation Avner Offer. 
Offer, Avner
Oxford: Clarendon Press, c1989.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03445
Subject Headings: • World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes
• Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Notes: • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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