Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: climate change, energy security and the struggle for the world's resources, the return of great power competition and the remaking of g[...]
Forever in the shadow of the war which followed, 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. This title proposes a strikingly different portrait, returning the world in that year to its contemporary freshness, its future still undecided, its outlook still open.[...]
Today, we inevitably view 1913 through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart. Yet hindsight can obscure as much--or more--than it reveals. In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this[...]
Weaves together the history of Arctic region with reportage and reflection, revealing a complex area of the globe, loaded with opportunity and rich in challenges. This title helps you travel from the oil-fields of Prudhoe Bay to the shores of Greenland, from the northernmost settlement on earth to t[...]
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features--[...]