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First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation
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Avner Offer
In 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 afte...more
Paperback, 310 pages
Published
January 28th 1991
by Oxford University Press
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Offer's book is not a light read, but it does an outstanding job of marshaling a variety of sources in examining the planning, execution and long term results of the British blockade of Germany during the First World War. Interesting as both economics and military history, it also provides a unique view of how the blockade was instrumental not only in winning the war, but in forcing the signing of the punitive treaty after the armistice. It is also not difficult to see where the WW2 era German...more
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Avner Offer is an Economic historian who currently holds the Chichele Professorship in Economic history at the University of Oxford, England. He is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and of the British Academy. He specializes in international political economy, law, the First World War and land tenure. Over the past decade Professor Offer's main interest has been in post-war economic growth, p...more
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