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The aim of this article is to analyse the effects on Spain as a neutral country of the monetary measures adopted by the largest allied nations during the First World War. We will focus on ...the intervention of exchange rates and on the measures aimed at limiting gold outflows from belligerent countries. The distortions derived from these policies gave rise, in some cases, to additional profits for Spanish exporters and intermediaries, while in others prevented the effective transformation of some benefits from war into valuable assets and pushed them to be dragged down by the economic disturbances of the post-war period.
The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social ...relations. InCapital, the State, and War, Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant aspect of this story: the inter-societal or geo-social origins of the two world wars, and, more broadly, the confluence of factors behind the Thirty Years' Crisis between 1914 and 1945.
Anievas presents the Thirty Years' Crisis as a result of the development of global capitalism with all its destabilizing social and geopolitical consequences, particularly the intertwined and co-constitutive nature of imperial rivalries, social revolutions, and anti-colonial struggles. Building on the theory of "uneven and combined development," he unites geopolitical and sociological explanations into a single framework, thereby circumventing the analytical stalemate between "primacy of domestic politics" and "primacy of foreign policy" approaches.
Anievas opens new avenues for thinking about the relations among security-military interests, the making of foreign policy, political economy and, more generally, the origins of war and the nature of modern international order.
World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged and institutes were ...founded, partly due to collaborations with the military. Researchers in the cultural sciences used war zones to gain access to »informants«: prisoner-of-war and refugee camps, occupied territories, even the front lines. Anthropologists tailored their inquiries to aid the war effort, contributed to interpretations of the war as a »struggle« between »races«, and assessed the »warlike« nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War.
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object description: Men of the North Russian Expeditionary Force smile for the camera as they stand at their British Lewis gun post at Lumbuski Bridge, 1919. There is ...snow on the ground.
object description: A British Lewis Gun post for the evacuation. Limbushi Bridge, 1919.
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object description: The grave of Lieutenant Quartermaster G Dancey, MC, DCM, of the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed at ...Archangel, Russia, on 2 June 1919.
object description: Grave of Lieutenant Quartermaster G. Dancey, M. C., D. C. M., 1st Battalion Oxford and Bucks Regiment, Archangel, 1919.
Discusses the impact that the Transvaal discoveries had on the relationship that developed between South Africa and Great Britain, which stood at the centre of the working of the international gold ...standard. Also examines the tensions that arose between SA and Britain over the terms of the agreement for the disposal of SA's gold during the war, and discloses the mounting pressures that the British authorities came under to change this arrangement once hostilities had ended. (Abstract amended)
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object description: Major-General L C Dunsterville, General Officer Commanding Dunsterforce with Commodore Norris, RN on the Caspian.
object description: Major General Dunsterville ...G. O. C. Dunsterforce, and Commodore Norris R. N. on the Caspian.
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object description: The General Officer Commanding Dunsterforce, Major General L C Dunsterville talking to an Armenian soldier.
object description: The G. O. C. talking to an Armenian ...soldier.
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