We have known for many decades that the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 "failed", in the sense that it did not prevent the outbreak of World War II. This book investigates not whether the Paris Peace Conference succeeded or failed, but the historically specific international system it created. It explores the rules under which that system operated, and the kinds of states and empires that inhabited it. Deepening the dialogue between history and international relations theory makes it possible to think about sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference in new ways. Sovereignty in 1919 was about not just determining of answers demarcating the international system, but also the questions. Sovereignty in 1919 was about remaking the world. Most histories of the Paris Peace Conference stop with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles with Germany on 28 June 1919. Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 considers all five treaties produced by the conference as well as the Treaty of Lausanne with Turkey in 1923. It is organized not chronologically or geographically, but according to specific problems of sovereignty. A peace based on "justice" produced a criminalized Great Power in Germany, and a template problematically applied in the other treaties. The conference sought to unmix lands and peoples in the defeated multinational empires by drawing boundaries and defining ethnicities. The conference sought not so much to oppose revolution as to instrumentalize it in the new international system. The League of Nations, so often taken as the supreme symbol of the failure of the conference, is better considered as a continuation of the laboratory of sovereignty established in Paris.
. . . This is not at all a top-down history of the diffusion of ideas about national self-determination.
This volume tells the story of the millions of imperial subjects called upon to defend their imperial governments' interest, the theatres of war that lay far beyond Europe, and the wartime roles and experiences of innumerable peoples from ...
They opted instead to wait for the peace conference to figure out what to do on this question and numerous others. ... 67-83; and Alfred D. Low, The Anschluss Movement, 1918—1919, and the Paris Peace Conference (Philadelphia, 1974).
Indeed, he attributed the recent murders of his friends and fellow prospectors Hermann Baum and Bernie McGrath (whose body he had helped to recover) to the two men's naiveté about 'primitive man' and to the ludicrous theories of ...
Traditional historical analysis focuses almost exclusively on US and European responses to the Paris Peace Conference and the interwar order and often fails to take into account non-western, particularly Asian voices - this is the first ...
This book, from renowned legal scholar William A. Schabas, sheds light on perhaps the most important international trial that never was.
Smith, M. L. Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919–1922. New York, 1973. Snelling, R. C. “Peacemaking, 1919. ... Soutu, G.-H. “The French Peacemakers and Their Home Front.” The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment After 75 Years, ...
Siegel tells the timely story of how female activists transformed women’s rights into a global rallying cry, laying a foundation for generations to come.
"In 'The Lights that Failed', Steiner challenges the assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening of a second European war and provides an analysis of the attempts to reconstruct Europe during the 1920s"-OCLC
This volume aims to bring the Great War more fully into Asian history and the people of Asia into the international history of the war, in the hope that the shared history could lay the groundwork for a shared future.