Ebook: The First World War: a concise global history

Maps; Preface; Chapter 01. Introduction; Chapter 02. Environment, Technology, and the Origins of War; Chapter 03. Optimism, 1914-1916; Chapter 04. Intensification, 1916-1917; Chapter 05. Conclusions: 1918 and Beyond; Notes; Sources on the First World War; Index; About the Author.;In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons. He argues that the war profoundly changed the ways in which people imagined the landscape around them and thought about technology and the environment. Before the war, Europe and its colonies generally regarded industrial technology as an instrument of modern.