Versailles Treaty and Its Legacy - The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision

The story of failed diplomacy during the peacemaking process at Versailles and the path that led to World War II.

List of contents

1. The international order on trial; 2. The road to Paris; 3. Versailles: a study in arrogance; 4. The retreat to utopia; 5. Manchuria and the triumph of non-recognition; 6. The rise of Hitler; 7. Challenge of the dictators; 8. The illusive response; 9. Munich: the continuing escape from reality; 10. The road to Prague; 11. The Soviet quest for collective security; 12. The coming of war.

About the author

Norman A. Graebner was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 26 books. He joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1967 as the Edward R. Stettinius Professor of Modern American History and, in 1982, became the Randolph P. Compton Professor. In 1978, he was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University; he was also one of the founders and early presidents of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). The New York Review of Books identified Graebner, along with Gaddis Smith at Yale, as a national leader in diplomatic history. Graebner served as an officer in the major national historical associations and he received the highest award to a civilian from the US Military Academy for a program he developed and led at West Point. He died in May 2010 at the age of 94.Edward M. Bennett is Emeritus Professor of History at Washington State University. The recipient of several outstanding teaching awards, he has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited 10 books dealing with US foreign relations. He is a past member of the executive committee of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. He has been a member of the SHAFR Graebner Prize Committee, as well as its chair. He was also one of 10 American historians selected by the American Historical Association and the American Council of Learned Societies to participate in the colloquia authorized by Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev to assess the Soviet-American relationship in World War II.

Summary

This study is a realist interpretation of the long diplomatic record that produced the coming of World War II in 1939. A critique of the Paris Peace Conference, the book rejects the idea of collective security, and delivers a powerful lesson in treaty-making.

Product details

• Authors: Edward M. Bennett, Bennett Edward M., Norman A. Graebner, Norman A. Bennett Graebner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107647480
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64748-0
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, First World War, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater