The Treaty of Versailles a reassessment after 75 years
"This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919, scrutinizing the motives, actions, and constraints that informed decision making by the American, British, a...
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Cambridge University Press
1998
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Publications of the German Historical Institute
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919, scrutinizing the motives, actions, and constraints that informed decision making by the American, British, and French politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the peace settlement. It also addresses German reactions to the draft treaty and the final agreement, as well as Germany's role in the immediate postwar period. The findings call attention to diverging peace aims within the American and Allied camps and underscore the degree to which the negotiators themselves considered the Versailles Treaty a work in progress. A detailed examination of the proceedings from the point of view of the main protagonists forms the core of the investigation."--Jacket Introduction / Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser -- Prologue: 1919-1945-1989 / Ronald Steel -- Germany's peace aims and the domestic and international constraints / Klaus Schwabe -- "Had we known how bad things were in Germany, we might have got stiffer terms": Great Britain and the German armistice / David French -- French war aims and peace planning / David Stevenson -- Wilsonian concepts and international realities at the end of the war / Thomas J. Knock -- A comment / Alan Sharp -- Great Britain: the home front / Erik Goldstein -- The French peacemakers and their home front / Georges-Henri Soutou -- The American mission to negotiate peace: an historian looks back / Lawrence E. Gelfand -- Between Compi(c)·gne and Versailles: the Germans on the way from a misunderstood defeat to an unwanted peace / Fritz Klein -- A comment / Antony Lentin -- The minorities question at the Paris Peace Conference: the Polish Minority Treaty, June 28, 1919 / Carole Fink -- The Rhineland question: West European security at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 / Stephen A. Schuker -- The Polish question / Piotr S. Wandycz -- Smoke and mirrors: in smoke-filled rooms and the Galerie des Glaces / Sally Marks -- The making of the economic peace / Elisabeth Glaser -- The balance of payments question: Versailles and after / Niall Ferguson -- A comment / Gerald D. Feldman -- The Soviet Union and Versailles / Jon Jacobson -- Versailles and international diplomacy / William R. Keylor -- The League of Nations: toward a new appreciation of its history / Antoine Fleury -- A comment / Diane B. Kunz -- Max Weber and the peace treaty of Versailles / Wolfgang J. Mommsen -- The construction of the American interpretation: the pro-treaty version / William C. Widenor -- British revisionism / Michael Graham Fry -- Woodrow Wilson's image of Germany, the war-guilt question, and the Treaty of Versailles / Manfred F. Boemeke -- A comment / Gordon Martel |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (S. 637 - 657) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 674 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780521628884 978-0-521-62888-4 9780521621328 978-0-521-62132-8 0521621321 0-521-62132-1 |