The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation.

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List of plates List of tables List of figures Introduction: Economic and social interpretation of the First World War Part I: How was Germany defeated?: Society under siege: Germany, 1914-1918 Food reform and food science Did Germany really starve? Food and the German State Collapse Part II: The Agrarian Bond: The United States, Canada, and Australia: Late-Victorian Britain - an import economy Causes of the Agricultural Depression, 1870-1924 The sod House against the manor house 'Like rats in a trap' - British urban society and overseas opportunties Coast, interior, and metropolis Wheat and Empire in Canada Asian labour on the Pacific rim: The struggle for exclusion, 1860-1907 Part III: The Atlantic ori entation: Fear of famine in British war plans, 1890-1908 Power and plenty: Naval mercantilism, 1905-1908 The dominion dimension Morality and Admiralty: 'Jacky' Fisher, economic warfare, and International law Blockade and its enemies, 1909-1912 Preparation and action, 1912-1914 Part IV: The other side of the North Sea: Economic development and national security in Wilhelmian Germany Germany: Economic preparation and the decision for war 'A second decision for war' - The U-boat campaign Neither dominion nor peace: Germany after the Armistice Conclusion List of sources cited Index

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