#  Manela, Erez - Empires at War, 1911-1923 

 





September 03, 2014

 

 

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Robert Gerwarth (Editor), **Erez Manela** (Editor). Oxford University Press, September 3, 2014  
[Publisher's Link](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/empires-at-war-9780198702511?facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=Ongoing%20Publication&lang=en&cc=us) *Empires at War, 1911-1923* offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the war beyond the generally-accepted 1914-1918 timeline, and as a global war between empires, rather than a European war between nation-states. [Read More...](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/empires-at-war-9780198702511?facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=Ongoing%20Publication&lang=en&cc=us#)

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  **[Erez Manela](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/erez-manela)** **Professor of History** My latest book, *[Empires at War, 1911-1923](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0198702515/ref=rdr_ext_tmb)* (2014), co-edited with Robert Gerwarth and published on the centennial of the outbreak of the First World War, opens up new directions in the history of that war. First, it considered the conflict as a global war of empires rather than a clash of European nation-states. Second, its expanded time frame located the war as part of a cycle of violence that began with the Italian invasion of Libya in 1911 and did not abate until the Lausanne Treaty of 1923. *Empires at War* has been translated into seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.

 My ongoing research into the history of the World Health Organization's Smallpox Eradication Program (1965-1980) seeks to cast new light on important aspects of post-WWII international history, including superpower relations, the evolution of international development, and the role of international organizations. My article, "[A Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History](http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/manela/files/manela-pox-dh.pdf?m=1360039680)," addressed some of these themes. As part of my interest in this period I also co-edited *[The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective](http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Global-1970s-Perspective/dp/0674061861/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1421776572&sr=8-11&keywords=manela)* (2010), to which I contributed a chapter on smallpox eradication and the rise of global governance.

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