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Cataclysm 1914 brings together a number of leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many different aspects of the origins, trajectories and consequences of the First World War. The collection not only aims to examine the war itself, but seeks to visualize the conflict and all of its immediate consequences (such as the Bolshevik Revolution and the ascendancy of US hegemony) as a defining moment in 20th century world politics, a moment which ruptured and reconstituted the 'modern' epoch in its many instantiations.
Contributors are: Alexander Anievas, Shelley Baranowski, Neil Davidson, Geoff Eley, Sandra Halperin, Esther Leslie, Lars T. Lih, Domenico Losurdo, Wendy Matsumura, Peter D. Thomas, Adam Tooze, Alberto Toscano, and Enzo Traverso
Contributors are: Alexander Anievas, Shelley Baranowski, Neil Davidson, Geoff Eley, Sandra Halperin, Esther Leslie, Lars T. Lih, Domenico Losurdo, Wendy Matsumura, Peter D. Thomas, Adam Tooze, Alberto Toscano, and Enzo Traverso
Price: $40.00
Pages: 471
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date:
14 June 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781608466344
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political ideologies and movements, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I, General and world history, Colonialism and imperialism, Politics and government, First World War
Praise for Anievas’ previous work:
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
"A fascinating tour de force that will surely be debated in the fields of history, sociology, Marxism and International Relations for years to come"
Justin Rosenberg, Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex
"This rigorously argued book presents a compelling challenge to standard narratives of capitalist modernity. The authors combine theoretical sophistication and a wide-ranging account of extra-European histories to provide a superb - and provocative - alternative"
Gurminder K Bhambra, author of Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury)
Marxism and World Politics
"Easily the best introduction to the diversity and richness of contemporary Marxist theory in International Relations and an important resource for anyone seeking to make sense of the relations between capitalism and geopolitics today."
Mark Laffey, SOAS, University of London, UK
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
"A fascinating tour de force that will surely be debated in the fields of history, sociology, Marxism and International Relations for years to come"
Justin Rosenberg, Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex
"This rigorously argued book presents a compelling challenge to standard narratives of capitalist modernity. The authors combine theoretical sophistication and a wide-ranging account of extra-European histories to provide a superb - and provocative - alternative"
Gurminder K Bhambra, author of Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury)
Marxism and World Politics
"Easily the best introduction to the diversity and richness of contemporary Marxist theory in International Relations and an important resource for anyone seeking to make sense of the relations between capitalism and geopolitics today."
Mark Laffey, SOAS, University of London, UK
Praise for Anievas’ previous work:
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
"A fascinating tour de force that will surely be debated in the fields of history, sociology, Marxism and International Relations for years to come"
—Justin Rosenberg, Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex
"This rigorously argued book presents a compelling challenge to standard narratives of capitalist modernity. The authors combine theoretical sophistication and a wide-ranging account of extra-European histories to provide a superb - and provocative - alternative"
—Gurminder K Bhambra, author of Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury)
Marxism and World Politics
"Easily the best introduction to the diversity and richness of contemporary Marxist theory in International Relations and an important resource for anyone seeking to make sense of the relations between capitalism and geopolitics today."
—Mark Laffey, SOAS, University of London, UK
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
"A fascinating tour de force that will surely be debated in the fields of history, sociology, Marxism and International Relations for years to come"
—Justin Rosenberg, Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex
"This rigorously argued book presents a compelling challenge to standard narratives of capitalist modernity. The authors combine theoretical sophistication and a wide-ranging account of extra-European histories to provide a superb - and provocative - alternative"
—Gurminder K Bhambra, author of Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury)
Marxism and World Politics
"Easily the best introduction to the diversity and richness of contemporary Marxist theory in International Relations and an important resource for anyone seeking to make sense of the relations between capitalism and geopolitics today."
—Mark Laffey, SOAS, University of London, UK
Alexander Anievas Ph.D. (2011), University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the "Thirty Years Crisis", 1914-1945 (University of Michigan Press, 2014).
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Alexander Anievas – The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics1
PART I. 'KLADDERADATSCH!: CAPITALISM, EMPIRE, AND IMPERIALISM IN THE MAKING AND AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I
1. Geoff Eley – Germany, the Fischer Controversy, and the Context of War: Rethinking German Imperialism, 1880–19141
2. Shelley Baranowski – War, Defeat, and the Urgency of Lebensraum: German Imperialism from the Second Empire to the Third Reich
3. Adam Tooze – Capitalist Peace or Capitalist War? The July Crisis Revisited
4. Alexander Anievas – Marxist Theory and the Origins of the First World
5. Wendy Matsumura – The Expansion of the Japanese Empire and the Rise of the Global Agrarian Question after the First World War
6. Sandra Halperin – War and Social Revolution: World War I and the 'Great Transformation'
PART II: RECONFIGURATIONS: REVOLUTION AND CULTURE AFTER 1914
7. Enzo Traverso – European Intellectuals and the First World War: Trauma and New Cleavages
8. Esther Leslie – Art after War: Experience, Poverty and the Crystal Utopia
9. Alberto Toscano – ‘America’s Belgium’: W.E.B. Du Bois on Race, Class, and the Origins of World War I
10. Domenico Losurdo – World War I, the October Revolution and Marxism’s Reception in the West and East
11. Peter Thomas – Uneven Developments, Combined: The First World War and Marxist Theories of Revolution
12. Neil Davidson – The First World War, Classical Marxism and the End of the Bourgeois Revolution in Europe
13. Lars T. Lih – ‘The New Era of War and Revolution’: Lenin, Kautsky, Hegel and the Outbreak of World War I
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Alexander Anievas – The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics1
PART I. 'KLADDERADATSCH!: CAPITALISM, EMPIRE, AND IMPERIALISM IN THE MAKING AND AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I
1. Geoff Eley – Germany, the Fischer Controversy, and the Context of War: Rethinking German Imperialism, 1880–19141
2. Shelley Baranowski – War, Defeat, and the Urgency of Lebensraum: German Imperialism from the Second Empire to the Third Reich
3. Adam Tooze – Capitalist Peace or Capitalist War? The July Crisis Revisited
4. Alexander Anievas – Marxist Theory and the Origins of the First World
5. Wendy Matsumura – The Expansion of the Japanese Empire and the Rise of the Global Agrarian Question after the First World War
6. Sandra Halperin – War and Social Revolution: World War I and the 'Great Transformation'
PART II: RECONFIGURATIONS: REVOLUTION AND CULTURE AFTER 1914
7. Enzo Traverso – European Intellectuals and the First World War: Trauma and New Cleavages
8. Esther Leslie – Art after War: Experience, Poverty and the Crystal Utopia
9. Alberto Toscano – ‘America’s Belgium’: W.E.B. Du Bois on Race, Class, and the Origins of World War I
10. Domenico Losurdo – World War I, the October Revolution and Marxism’s Reception in the West and East
11. Peter Thomas – Uneven Developments, Combined: The First World War and Marxist Theories of Revolution
12. Neil Davidson – The First World War, Classical Marxism and the End of the Bourgeois Revolution in Europe
13. Lars T. Lih – ‘The New Era of War and Revolution’: Lenin, Kautsky, Hegel and the Outbreak of World War I
Bibliography
Index