Land and Power - British and Allied Policy on Germany''s Frontiers 1916-19

Informationen zum Autor Harold I. Nelson Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1963, this book examines the territorial settlement with Germany at the end of the First World War. It approaches it from the standpoint of British official attitudes and policy in order to discover the pre-Paris-Peace-Conference evolution of British governmental thinking on German boundary issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: The Wartime Background 1. Initial Attitudes on Basic Problems 2. The American Factor and British Policy, 1917-18 3. The Armistice and Territorial Questions Part 2: Pre-Conference Preparations 4. Advice of the Experts 5. Governmental Attitudes before Paris Part 3: The Making of the Settlement 6. The German-Polish Frontier 7. ‘Dinner instead of Danzig’ 8. The Rhine Frontier 9. The Treaty of Guarantee 10. Lloyd George, Wilson, and the Saar Dilemma 11. Czechoslovakia, Austria and Greater Germany 12. The Low Countries: Zinc, Strategy and Compensations 13. Appeasement of Statesmanship? 14. Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Harold I. Nelson, Nelson Harold I.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367247607
• ISBN: 978-0-367-24760-7
• No. of pages: 418
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: German History; Routledge Library Editions: German History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Business & Economics / General, European History, Germany, First World War, HISTORY / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), History and Archaeology