On 1913
Emmerson, Charles. 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War. New York: PublicAffairs, 2013. pp. 526. Cloth.
Does a solid job of reaching beyond Europe with plentiful sections on the Americas and the Middle East, and a bit less on East Asia. Work on the rest of the European empires is lacking, but overall this is a great work of popular scholarship that homes in on the final year of the nineteenth century.