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Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII

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307,689 words · about 21 h 33 min to read

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The text of Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #44213. It is public domain in the United States. Edited by Wilson Lloyd Bevan and Hugo Christian Martin Wendel. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built

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Language
English
Subjects
World War, 1914-1918, League of Nations, World War, 1914-1918 › Economic aspects, Treaty of Versailles (1919 June 28), World War, 1914-1918 › Finance
Length
307,689 words · about 21 h 33 min
Sections
47 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (47)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. Part I under 1 min
  3. Part II about 3 min
  4. Introduction about 6 h 26 min
  5. Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII (part 3 of 7) about 1 h 43 min
  6. I. The Covenant of the League of Nations about 17 min
  7. II. Boundaries of Germany about 6 min
  8. III. Political Clauses for Europe about 8 min
  9. 1. CESSION AND EXPLOITATION OF MINING PROPERTY about 6 min
  10. II. GOVERNMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF THE SARRE BASIN about 6 min
  11. III. PLEBISCITE about 53 min
  12. IV. German Rights and Interests Outside Germany about 11 min
  13. V. Military, Naval, and Aerial Clauses under 1 min
  14. I. EFFECTIVES AND CADRES OF THE GERMAN ARMY about 2 min
  15. II. ARMAMENT, MUNITIONS, AND MATERIAL about 4 min
  16. III. RECRUITING AND MILITARY TRAINING about 3 min
  17. IV. FORTIFICATIONS about 18 min
  18. VI. Prisoners of War and Graves about 4 min
  19. VII. Penalties about 2 min
  20. VIII. Reparation about 35 min
  21. IX. Financial Clauses about 11 min
  22. X. Economic Clauses under 1 min
  23. I. CUSTOMS REGULATIONS, DUTIES, AND RESTRICTIONS about 4 min
  24. II. SHIPPING about 1 min
  25. III. UNFAIR COMPETITION about 1 min
  26. IV. TREATMENT OF NATIONALS OF ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS about 2 min
  27. V. GENERAL ARTICLES about 1 h 3 min
  28. XI. Aerial Navigation about 2 min
  29. XII. Ports, Waterways, and Railways about 3 min
  30. I. FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION about 1 min
  31. II. FREE ZONES IN PORTS about 2 min
  32. III. CLAUSES RELATING TO THE ELBE, THE ODER, THE NIEMEN (RUSSTROM-MEMEL-NIEMEN), AND THE DANUBE about 9 min
  33. IV. CLAUSES RELATING TO THE RHINE AND THE MOSELLE about 8 min
  34. V. CLAUSES GIVING TO THE CZECHO-SLOVAK STATE THE USE OF NORTHERN PORTS about 1 min
  35. I. CLAUSES RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT about 3 min
  36. II. ROLLING STOCK about 1 min
  37. III. CESSIONS OF RAILWAY LINES about 1 min
  38. IV. PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN RAILWAY LINES about 1 min
  39. V. TRANSITORY PROVISIONS about 3 min
  40. XIII. Labor about 1 min
  41. I. ORGANIZATION about 5 min
  42. II. PROCEDURE about 9 min
  43. III. GENERAL about 1 min
  44. IV. TRANSITORY PROVISIONS about 3 min
  45. XIV. Guarantees about 3 min
  46. XV. Miscellaneous Provisions (part 1 of 2) about 5 h 35 min
  47. XV. Miscellaneous Provisions (part 2 of 2) about 2 h 33 min

The opening of Introduction

By PROFESSOR IRVING FISHER

Department of Political Economy, Yale University

In various ways, as this volume shows, the war has profoundly affected our economic and political life. War has ever been a disturber and innovator, always leaving after it a different world from that which existed previous to it. On account of our tremendously complex economic organization--the specialization of industry among nations, and the network of commerce--war today causes more profound changes than ever before. There can not be a human being in the world today whose life is not altered by the war through which we have just passed.

In trying, now that the war is over, to stop drifting, and to think our way out of the bent (or broken) remains of the ante bellum life, the world is confronted by a maze of problems and a still greater maze of proffered solutions.

Read on in Part 2 →

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