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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: war lords and the Gallipoli disaster
    sub title: how globalized trade led Britain to its worst defeat of the First World War
  name:
    name part: Lambert, Nicholas A.
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 337 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book offers a new history of an old subject, the genesis of Britain's disastrous 1915 Dardanelles campaign. It also offers a new history of a new subject, the strategic implications of globalization, because in order to comprehend the former, it is necessary to grasp the latter. Thanks to the development of the international wheat market during the late nineteenth century, the British government came to realize that the national dependence upon imported food had become the Achilles Heel of the British Empire. The book then shows how the disruption of the global wheat trade during the early months of the First World War exceeded the government's worst nightmare. By January 1915, the rising price of bread and consequent threat of social unrest required a political response. It came in the form of a seemingly unrelated event, the disastrous British attack at Gallipoli in the spring of 1915. Contrary to all previous narratives which argue this was done for the military-strategic objective of relieving pressure on the Western Front, this books demonstrates that the British Government authorized the attack for mainly political-economic reasons, to open the flow of grain from Russia through the Dardanelles in order to bring down the politically dangerous level of bread prices in Britain, and to enable Russia to export wheat and so earn foreign exchange that would obviate the need for huge British loans to support its war effort. In so doing, the book offers a case study of grand strategic policymaking under pressure.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Britannia's Achilles Heel -- War in a Globalized World -- The Turkish Irritant -- The Beggar Giant -- The Military and Diplomatic Strands -- The Political Economic Strands -- Two Problems, One Solution -- Seven Days in January -- Not Such a Bargain -- The Fortunes of War -- This Wicked Gamble -- Conclusion.
  note: Nicholas A. Lambert.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-tu---
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Great Britain.
      name part: Dardanelles Commission.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Turkey
    geographic: Gallipoli Peninsula
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Economic aspects
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Food supply
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Wheat trade
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Wheat trade
    geographic: Russia
  classification: D568.3 .L36 2021
  classification: 940.4/26
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in international history
  identifier: 9780197545201
  identifier: 0197545203
  identifier: 9780197545225
  identifier: 9780197545232
  identifier: 2020041222
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200924
    record change date: 20210728141444.0
    record identifier: in00004431163