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Book: The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World
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  1. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    the pairing instinct is the great remover of the limits between individuals,
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  2. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    the Japanese had won by being more European than the Russians; their ships were more modern, their troops better disciplined, their artillery more effective. To Leo Tolstoy, the titan of Russian letters, Japan's victory looked like a straightforward triumph of Western materialism.
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  3. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    At Tsushima on May 27–28, 1905, the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō sent two-thirds of the Russian fleet – 147,000 tons of naval hardware and nearly 50,000 sailors – to the bottom of the Korea Strait.
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  4. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    by the second quarter of the twentieth century one in nine German doctors was a Jew, and one in six lawyers. There were also above-average numbers of Jews working as newspaper editors, journalists, theatre directors and academics. Indeed, they were under-represented in only one of Germany's elite occupational groups, and that was the officer corps of the army. Anti-Semitism, then, was sometimes nothing more than the envy of under-achievers.
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  5. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    The Emperor and his ministers might dance Western dances and even, in violation of traditional Japanese propriety, smile Western smiles. But their underlying and deadly earnest aim was always to wipe the smiles off European faces.
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    the German Workers' Party. Their principal goal, declared its leader in 1913, was 'the maintenance and increase of {German} living space' {Lebensraum} against the threat posed by Czech Halbmenschen {'half-humans'}. This was in fact a response to the creation of a Czech National Socialist Party in 1898.
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  7. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    People born in other countries accounted for 14.6 per cent of the population in 1910 compared with 12.9 per cent at the 2010 census.
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  8. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    The Abyss. Globalization had many economic benefits but, as in our own times, the creation of a truly international economic network combined greater efficiency with greater fragility. In 1914 a highly optimized system crashed in what was, without doubt, the biggest financial collapse of all time. {Unlike in 1929 or in 2008, the world's major stock markets were forced to suspend trading for no less than five months.}
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  9. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    the unexpectedness of war
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  10. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    the introduction of universal male suffrage in 1907.
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  11. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    globalization. Only one era in history remotely resembles our own in terms of the degree of international economic and social integration, and that is the period from around 1875 to 1914. World trade grew to an unprecedented volume. Capital flowed across borders as never before.
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  12. Niall Ferguson _ The Abyss: World War I and the

    The majority of books about World War I represent its causes as diplomatic, its course as military and its consequences as economic.
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