Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year 1917
The contents of the present volume of the new international year Boon, the eleventh in the new series which began with the volume for 1907, are modified in many important respects by the entry of the United States into the war. Besides the account of that event which will be found in the articles war OF the nations and united states and the war there are comprehensive accounts of the effect of the war in all fields of industrial, agricultural, educational, and economic activity. The article on war OF the nations is carried oil along the lines that were laid down by Professor Carlton Hayes in preceding issues, containing as before a brief prefatory summary of events down to the beginning of the year. In the articles agriculture, agricultural legislation, Foon control, food and nutrition the various problems and developments in food production and distribution are discussed in detail. The effect of the war on industry is recounted in such articles as chemistry (indus trial), shipping, shipbuilding, mus, and other titles that Will read ily occur to the reader; and the financial, economic, and social effects are treated in financial review, taxation, tariff, labor, labor legis lation, trade unions, strikes, insurance, unemployment, etc. Mat ters of specifically military and naval interest are discussed as before under such headings as military progress, naval Pnoonnss, Bammsnms, submarines, aebonautics, etc. Other articles that may be mentioned as dealing with striking features of the year are russia, which contains an account of the russian revolution, the articles on each of the countries at war, the articles international Ansmumon and peace, military sur geby, halifax disaster, ukraine, submarine operations, and liquor regulation Aside from the necessary changes in proportion resulting from this crisis in our history the present volume retains all the essential features of preceding issues; that is to say, being designed as an encyclo paedia of the year it includes many classes of information not to be found in other annual volumes. For example among the departments not in cluded or less fully treated in other such works are biography, agricul tube, political history at home and abroad, societies, and religious Booms. Its large size and the exclusion of matters not pertaining to the year or not derived from the latest available information makes this.
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