THE NEW INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK A COMPENDIUM OF THE WORLD'S FOR THE YEAR 1917 EDITOR FRANK MOORE COLBY, M.A. ASSOCIATE EDITOR ALLEN LEON CHURCHILL NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1918 HP 647.3.2 HARVARD COLLEGE MAY 12 1941 LIBRARY Mre. T. W. Richards, COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY PREFACE The contents of the present volume of the NEW INTERNATIONAL YEAR Book, 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 on 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, FOOD 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 (INDUSTRIAL), SHIPPING, SHIPBUILDING, RAILWAYS, and other titles that will readily occur to the reader; and the financial, economic, and social effects are treated in FINANCIAL REVIEW, TAXATION, TARIFF, LABOR, LABOR LEGISLATION, TRADE UNIONS, STRIKES, INSURANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT, etc. Matters of specifically military and naval interest are discussed as before under such headings as MILITARY PROGRESS, NAVAL PROGRESS, BATTLESHIPS, SUBMARINES, AERONAUTICS, 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 ARBITRATION AND PEACE, MILITARY SURGERY, 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 encyclopædia of the year it includes many classes of information not to be found in other annual volumes. For example among the departments not included or less fully treated in other such works are BIOGRAPHY, AGRICULTURE, POLITICAL HISTORY at home and abroad, SOCIETIES, and RELIGIOUS BODIES. Its large size and the exclusion of matters not pertaining to the year or not derived from the latest available information makes this possible. FRANK MOORE COLBY. |