List of Illustrations
.Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson, 1915 .
.Aftermath of Easter Rising, Dublin, June 1916 .
.German troops marching into Bucharest, December 1916 .
.Yuan Shi-Kai, 1916 .
.Men and women queuing to vote for the Russian Constituent Assembly, November 1917 .
.The Tauride Palace, meeting place of the Constituent Assembly, January 1918 .
.American and French troops with Renault FT light tanks, 1918 .
.A blindfolded Russian negotiator with Habsburg troops en route to Brest-Litovsk.
.Prince Leopold of Bavaria signing the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, March 1918 .
.German troops in Kiev, August 1918 .
.Poster for the eighth German war loan, March 1918 .
.Poster for the Third US Liberty Loan, April 1918 .
.Kiel marines on the Friedrichstrasse, November 1918 .
.The SMS Hindenburg sailing into Scapa Flow to surrender, November 1918 .
.Woodrow Wilson welcomed on arrival at Dover, December 1918 .
.Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George in Versailles.
.Red Scare cartoon by William Allen Rogers.
.Japanese Red Cross nurses returning from the Siberian intervention, 1919
.Matthias Erzberger and advisors discussing future of Danzig, March 1919 .
.Patriotic, anti-Japanese protestors in Shanghai, spring 1919 .
.Unemployment rally, London, January 1921 .
.An old woman being escorted to vote in the Upper Silesia plebiscite, March 1921 .
.Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
.The Washington Naval Conference, November 1921 .
.Gandhi Day, Delhi, July 1922 .
.French troops guarding the entrance hall to the Coal Syndicate, the Ruhr, January 1923 .
.Lenins funeral, Moscow, January 1924 .
.Ku Klux Klan parade, Washington DC , 1926 .
.Japans Foreign Minister Kijuro Shidehara.
.General Chiang Kai Shek being greeted by crowds in Hankow, 1927
.Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann, September 1926 .
.Crowds gathering outside the London Stock Exchange after the Gold Standard had been suspended, September 1931 .
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List of Maps
.The dismemberment of China
.European territorial changes resulting from the First World War
List of Figures and Tables
. The GDP of Empires (source: A. Maddison, Historical Statistics of the World Economy , http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm)
. The Forgotten Recession: Americas Post-War Shock, 1919 (source: NBER Macrohistory database, http://www.nber.org/databases/microhistory)
. The Great Deflation (source: J. S. Davis, Recent Developments in World Finance, The Review of Economics and Statistics , 4, no. 2 (April 1922), 6287)
. The Urshock of the British Interwar: The First Spike in UK Unemployment, 1920 (source: NBER Macrohistory database, http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory)
. What the Dollars Bought: The Share of Vital War Materials Purchased by the UK Abroad, 1914 (sources: K. D. Stubbs, Race to the Front: The Material Foundations of Coalition Strategy in the Great War (Westport, CT , 2002 ), , , ; M. W. Gibson, British Strategy and Oil, 1914 1923 (PhD, University of Glasgow, 2012 ), , )
. The Biggest Event in Democratic History: The Outcome of the Russian Constituent Assembly Election, November 1917 (source: O. H. Radkey, The Election to the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1917 (Cambridge, MA , 1950 ), )
. From Deficit to Surplus to Deficit: Japans Fragile Balance of Payments, 1913 (source: H. G. Moulton, Japan: An Economic and Financial Appraisal (Washington, DC , 1931 ),
. The Wartime Dislocation of the Global Price System: Wholesale Prices (sources: C. Wrigley (ed.), The First World War and the International Economy (Cheltenham, UK , 2000 ), ; M. A. Rifaat, The Monetary System of Egypt (London, 1935 ), )
. A Low-Growth War Economy: The United States, 1916 (source: C. Gilbert, American Financing of World War I (Westport, CT , 1970 ), , , )
. War, Inflation and Labour Militancy, 1914 : The Number of Strikes (sources: C. Wrigley (ed.), The First World War and the International Economy (Cheltenham, UK , 2000 ), ; Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States (Washington, DC , 1961 ), D, )
. The New Hierarchy of Financial Power: An American Assessment of Budget Positions Ahead of Versailles, December 1918 (source: P. D. Cravath memo for D. H. Miller, Preliminary Suggestions Regarding Indemnities, December 1918 , Document , in P. M. Burnett, Reparation at the Paris Peace Conference (New York, 1940 ), vol. , )
. The Heavy Hand of the Associate: Allied Indebtedness to the United States (source: adapted from R. Self, Britain, America and the War Debt Controversy: The Economic Diplomacy of an Unspecial Relationship, 1917 1941 (London, 2006 ), )
. What Germany Paid, 1918 (sources (reparations): S. B. Webb, Hyperinflation and Stabilization in Weimar Germany (Oxford, 1989 ), , S. A. Schuker, American Reparations to Germany, 1919 1933 (Princeton, NJ , 1988 ), , , , and C. Bresciani-Turroni, The Economics of Inflation (London, 1937 ), ; sources (national income): A. Ritschl and M. Spoerer, Das Bruttosozialprodukt in Deutschland nach den amtlichen Volkseinkommens und Sozialproduktstatistiken 1901 1995 , Jahrbuch fr Wirtschaftsgeschichte 2 (1997), , spliced with C.-L. Holtfrerich, Die deutsche Inflation 1914 1923 (Berlin, 1980 ), )
. Stretched Thin: Deployment of British Imperial Forces, February 1920 (source: A. Clayton, The British Empire as a Superpower, 1919 (London, 1986 ), )
. Germanys Slide into Hyperinflation, 1919 (sources: S. B. Webb, Hyperinflation and Stabilization in Weimar Germany (Oxford, 1989 ), , ; NBER Macrohistory database, http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/; C.-L. Holtfrerich, Die deutsche Inflation, 1914 1923 (Berlin, 1980 ))
. Coming to Terms with Washington: War Debt Agreements, 1923 (source: adapted from R. Self, Britain, America and the War Debt Controversy: The Economic Diplomacy of an Unspecial Relationship, 1917 1941 (London, 2006 ), )
. Doux Commerce: US Private Long-Term Foreign Investment, December 1930 (source: Royal Institute of International Affairs, The Problem of International Investment (Oxford, 1937 ), )
. The Effects of the Hoover Moratorium on Political Debts, June 1931 (source: The Economist , June 1932 )
. The Rising Cost of Confrontation: Military Spending before World War I Compared to the 1930 s (sources (defence burden): Historical Statistics of the United States (Washington DC, 1960); J. Eloranta, From the Great Illusion to the Great War: Military Spending Behaviour of the Great Powers, 18701913, European Review of Economic History (2007), 25583; J. Eloranta, Why Did the league of Nations Fail?, Cliometrica (2011), 2752; source ( GDP ): A. Maddison, Historical Statistics of the World Economy , http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm)
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