Versailles 1919 - A Centennial Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Alan Sharp is provost of the Coleraine campus at the University of Ulster and an internationally recognized expert on the Treaty of Versailles. Klappentext An extensive look at the Versailles settlement in the aftermath of the First World War, given in a revised edition as the centenary of the Paris Peace Conferences at Versailles approaches. Zusammenfassung This book, fully revised and updated with new material for the centenary of the Paris Paris Conferences at Versailles in 1919 sets the consequences of the Peace Treaties into their longer term context and argues that the responsibility for Europe's continuing interwar instability cannot be wholly attributed to the peacemakers of 1919-23. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction 1. The Peace Settlements: Versailles! An Overview 2. The German Problem 3. The League of Nations and the United Nations 4. National Self-Determination: Wilson's Troublesome Principle 5. Minority Protection! Disarmament and International Law 6. Ideology and the American Century Conclusion Notes Acknowledgements Bibliography Picture Sources Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Alan Sharp, Sharp Alan
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781912208098
• ISBN: 978-1-912208-09-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, First World War, HISTORY / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1910 to c 1919, Peace studies and conflict resolution, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Peace studies & conflict resolution, History and Archaeology