![]() ![]() London : world city - Paris : the eternal, the universal - Berlin : powerhouse - Rome : the Pope's aeroplane - Vienna : shadows and light - St. Winnipeg-Melbourne : Britain abroad - Buenos Aires : southern star - Algiers : the radiance of the republic - Bombay-Durban : tapestry of Empire - Tehran : under foreign eyes - Jerusalem : Zion and its discontents. Washington DC : republic, nation, empire - New York : metropolis - Detroit : a model future - Los Angeles : boom! - Mexico City : Monroe's bequest. ![]() Traveling from Europe's capitals, then at the height of their global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and the United States, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South America, he provides a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, its future still undecided, its outlook still open."-Publisher's information. In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this "prelude to war" narrative, and explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity. Our perspective narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features. "Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Cserep, Jason Waltrip, James Williams, Sc ott Bradley. Gassaway, Betty Gassaway, Danny Gordon, Raven Gordon, Michael Dunmire, Vincent Darlage, Bob Probst, Chris Bradley, Craig Pekar, Jason Durall, Mark ‘Neo’ Howe, Mark Billanie, Mark Sizer, Michael J Young, Alan Moore, Jamie Godfrey, Daniel Scothorne, Daniel Haslam, Christy Ward, Jason Ward, Jason Hohler, Kevin French, William Dvorak, Jack Cox, Brent Strickland, Melissa Strickland, Adam Crossingham, Alex Aplin, P aul Ev ans, D avid Litt le, Nic k Low son, Dougal McLachan, Mark Steedman, Sam Vail, Alan Marson, Robert Hall, T rev or Kerslake, André Chabot, Antonio Eleuteri, Emilia Eleuteri, Francesco Cascone, Claudio Mormile, Angelo Mormile, Paul O’Neal, Patrick O’Neal, Chuy Hernandez, Butch Mercado, D’Angelo Ramos, Jay Hafner, Eric D. ![]() Morgan Nash, Chiara Mac Call, Hayden Nash, Adam T aylor, Ian Over, Simon English, Rafael Dei Svaldi, Guilherme Dei Svaldi, Gustavo Emmel, Leonel Caldela, André Mendes Rotta, H Barker, W esley R. Cre dits 2 Intr oduction 3 AQ UILONIA: T he Pr oudes t Kingdom of the World 4 AR GOS: The Maritime Kingdo m 14 BORDER KINGDOM: The Haunte d Land 18 BRYTHUNIA: The P as t or al Kingd om 25 CIMME RIA: Lan d of D arkn es s and Ni ght 32 CO RINTHIA: T he Land o f Mount ainou s City S t a t es 37 GHULI ST: The Hairy Hi llmen of The Himeli ans 42 HYPERBOREA: Bleak Plains and Br oken Hill s 47 HYRKANIA: The Riders of the S te ppe 51 IRANI STA N: Land of G a udy Silks and Spi re d Helme ts 58 KHAURAN: Land of The Queen of Sorr ow 62 KHITAI: L and of t he Ancient s 65 KHORAJA: A Kothic Piece of Shem 69 KOTH: Hub of Overland Tr a de Rout es 71 KUSH and the THE BLACK COAST 75 NEMEDIA: T he Dragon Throne 86 NORDHEIM: ASGAR D - Home of the Æsir 92 NORDHEIM: VANAHEIM - Home of the V anir 95 OPHIR: The Ki ngdo m of Gold 100 PICTISH WILDERNES S: Land of Painte d Devils 104 SHEM: The Pa st oral Lands 110 ST YGIA: The Serpent of the South 121 TURAN: Kin gdom of B arb aric Splendour 130 VEN DHYA : The Golden K ingdo m 139 ZAMORA: Towers of Spid er-Haunted Mystery 151 ZINGARA: Land of Chivalry and Con spir acy 157 Othe r People s of the Hyborian Age 164 Notables of the Hyborian Age 168 G ame s Mas te ring C ona n 180 License 192 ![]()
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