Charles Emmerson

A Chatham House senior research fellow and author of The Future History of the Arctic presents an assessment of the year 1913 that is independent of an imminent World War I, drawing on visits to European capitals and other major cities to reveal how the world was more integrated and internationalized than previously understood. "Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global...

"[The author] leads readers ... through the landscape, history, literature and politics of the North, from the wrongheaded theories of the ancients to diplomatic intrigues on the Arctic's borderlands, the brutality of the Soviet gulag archipelago, and the region's emergence as a strategically important source of energy."--Jacket p. [2].