On the eve of the day that changed everything, America was charging into a new era of globalization, with capital soaring through an increasingly borderless world. New technologies in communication and transportation whisked us, and our voices and documents, farther and faster than we had dreamed possible a few years earlier. But then as summer slipped into fall, an act of terrorism sparked a human catastrophe that would halt trade and other peaceful international exchanges for years.
The terrorist attack was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which led to the dark day of Aug. 4, 1914, when German...
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