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Book A Memoir of the Paris Peace Conference  1919

Download or read book A Memoir of the Paris Peace Conference 1919 written by James Wycliffe Headlam and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A memoir of the Paris Peace Conferenc  1919

Download or read book A memoir of the Paris Peace Conferenc 1919 written by James Headlam-Morley and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Britain  Bulgaria  and the Paris Peace Conference  1918   1919

Download or read book Britain Bulgaria and the Paris Peace Conference 1918 1919 written by Patrick J. Treanor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since at least 1876, Britain’s policy toward Bulgaria had been derivative of her policy toward the Turkish Straits, and it continued to be so during the period from the conclusion of the Armistice of Salonika until the signature of the Treaty of Neuilly. British policy was the main factor in shaping the Treaty of Neuilly and therefore exercised an important influence on the simultaneously unfolding Bulgarian power struggle and on setting that country’s political agenda for years to come.

Book The Politics of Self determination

Download or read book The Politics of Self determination written by Volker Prott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the pitfalls of border drawing in post-WWI Europe, arguing that at international and local levels, the 'temptation of violence' made national self-determination problematic, as local elites, administrations, and paramilitary leaders used ethnic notions of identity to mobilise popular support under a guise of international legitimacy.

Book The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization

Download or read book The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization written by R. Boyce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the standard narrative of Interwar International History, this account establishes the causal relationship between the global political and economic crises of the period, and offers a radically new look at the role of ideology, racism and the leading liberal powers in the events between the First and Second World Wars.

Book Post World War One Plebiscites and Their Legacies

Download or read book Post World War One Plebiscites and Their Legacies written by Sergiusz Bober and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plebiscites, or referendums, are epitomes of direct democracy and the right of self-determination. While direct democracy has always been a key subject in the theory and practice of western liberal democracies, the issue of self-determination has been propelled to the fore by the hegemonistic moves of Russia. By providing a historical analysis of the post-World War One plebiscites, this book deals with enduring, painfully contemporary, and in in any case fundamental, concepts. The contributors to this edited volume approach the referendums comparatively. After grounding the analysis theoretically, the authors look at detailed aspects of individual cases, with the two plebiscites held in the Danish-German border region of Schleswig in the winter of 1920 as points of departure. They then extend the exploration through the inter-war period and address the effects of border delimitations on everyday life or gender roles in the context of ethnic mobilization. Finally, the book places the post-World War One plebiscites in a long-term perspective. The concluding essays assess, among others, the applicability of plebiscitary solutions to contemporary conflicts, taking into consideration issues of borders, religion, language, identity, and minority rights.

Book Keynes s Economic Consequences of the Peace after 100 Years

Download or read book Keynes s Economic Consequences of the Peace after 100 Years written by Patricia Clavin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a turbulent world, Keynes's warnings of a century ago are no less relevant - and some even more so.

Book The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy  1919 1926

Download or read book The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy 1919 1926 written by Ephraim Maisel and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the administrative changes of the post-war period and of the senior permanent officials, their personalities and cast of mind, who advised the foreign secretary and carried out his policies.

Book Defending the Rights of Others

Download or read book Defending the Rights of Others written by Carole Fink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the period from 1878 to 1938 explores international minority protections.

Book Transatlantic Relations and the Great War

Download or read book Transatlantic Relations and the Great War written by Kurt Bednar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic Relations and the Great War explores the relations between the Danube Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the modern US democracy and how that relationship developed over decades until it ended in a final rupture. As the First World War drew to a close in late 1918, the Mid-European Union was created to fill the vacuum in Central and Eastern Europe as the old Danube Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was falling apart. One year before, in December 1917, the United States had declared war on Austria-Hungary and, overnight, huge masses of immigrants from the Habsburg Empire became enemy aliens in the US. Offering a major deviation from traditional historiography, this book explains how the countdown of mostly diplomatic events in that fatal year 1918 could have taken an alternative course. In addition to providing a narrative account of Austrian-Hungarian relations with the US in the years leading up to the First World War, the author also demonstrates how an almost total ignorance of the affairs of the Dual Monarchy was to be found in the US and vice versa. This book is a fascinating and important resource for students and scholars interested in modern European and US history, diplomatic relations, and war studies.

Book The Lights that Failed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zara S. Steiner
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0199226865
  • Pages : 955 pages

Download or read book The Lights that Failed written by Zara S. Steiner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Book Britain  the Hashemites and Arab Rule

Download or read book Britain the Hashemites and Arab Rule written by Timothy J. Paris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Paris examines Winston Churchill's involvement in the struggle for power in a number of Middle Eastern countries between 1920 and 1925. His study traces the development of the Sherifian policy, a policy that was devised by the British.

Book Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands

Download or read book Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual manner. A boundary becomes not an “imaginary line” but a tool for thinking about how to separate any two elements, whether ideas, events, etc., into categories by which they become comprehensible and distinct. The scholar contributors seek not simply to discern the boundaries, but, and perhaps more importantly, to understand the process of delination, and its consequences. With its maverick history and grass-root political traditions, the Netherlands provides an auspicious setting to examine the historical function of boundaries both real and imagined.

Book Passion and Restraint

    Book Details:
  • Author : Denis Clark
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2022-07-26
  • ISBN : 0228012635
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Passion and Restraint written by Denis Clark and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of today’s international order can be traced to the experimentations with governance that occurred in central Europe immediately after World War I. And though Western governments did not bring about the creation of Poland on their own or determine all of its eventual borders, their attempts to do so left many lingering grudges and made the years immediately following the war a crucial period in Polish and international history. Passion and Restraint examines how British, French, and American foreign policymakers interacted with Poles and the idea of an independent Poland during this period. Western policymakers knew little about Poland in 1914, but by war’s end they were drawing the new country’s borders, sending humanitarian aid, and imposing minority protections. Attitudes regarding national character and emotional restraint were central, intertwined themes in British, French, and American diplomacy during this period of Polish rebirth, and policymakers’ opinions of national character evolved based on personal experiences, political conditions, and dominant understandings of the Polish people in the early twentieth century. Amid these changing attitudes, policymakers emphasized the necessity of Polish emotional restraint. Demonstrating how emotions and stereotypes were integral to diplomatic decision-making, Passion and Restraint brings attention to these often-overlooked historical factors, advancing a new lens for the study of Polish, European, and international history.

Book The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920

Download or read book The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 written by Andrzej Nowak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland and East Central Europe, and a Red Army sweep further west. This book probes the British–Soviet negotiations and diplomatic operations behind the scenes. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British archives to show how (and why) top British politicians were ready to accept a new Russian imperial control over the whole of Eastern Europe. Nowak unravels this previously untold story of that first and forgotten appeasement, stopped only by the Polish military victory over the Red Army. His excellent historical craftsmanship and new sources contribute to the book’s quality, filling up a lacuna in contemporary historiography. This book will appeal to researchers of geopolitical affairs and the Great Powers, the history of Poland, and the political mentality of Western elites. It will also be of interest to university students and tutors, scholars of history and international relations and – thanks to the book’s brisk and fascinating narrative – amateur historians and history aficionados.

Book In the Midst of Civilized Europe

Download or read book In the Midst of Civilized Europe written by Jeffrey Veidlinger and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE “The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holocaust. No history of that Jewish catastrophe comes close to the virtuosity of research, clarity of prose, and power of analysis of this extraordinary book. As the horror of events yields to empathetic understanding, the reader is grateful to Veidlinger for reminding us what history can do.” —Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms—ethnic riots—dominated headlines and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true. Drawing upon long-neglected archival materials, including thousands of newly discovered witness testimonies, trial records, and official orders, acclaimed historian Jeffrey Veidlinger shows for the first time how this wave of genocidal violence created the conditions for the Holocaust. Through stories of survivors, perpetrators, aid workers, and governmental officials, he explains how so many different groups of people came to the same conclusion: that killing Jews was an acceptable response to their various problems. In riveting prose, In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.