Beyond the Great War

Making Peace in a Disordered World

AvCarl Bouchard,Norman Ingram

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Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Following the end of the First World War, a new world order emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was an order riddled with contradictions and problems that were only finally resolved after the Second World War.

Beyond the Great War brings together a group of both well-established and younger historians who share a rejection of the dominant view of the peace process that ended the First World War. The book expands beyond the traditional focus on diplomatic and high political history to question the assumption that the Paris Peace Treaties were the progenitors of a new world order. Extending the ongoing debate about the success of the Treaty of Versailles and surrounding events, this collection approaches the heritage of the Great War through a variety of lenses: gender, race, the high politics of diplomacy, the peace movement, provision for veterans, international science, socialism, and the way the war ended. Collectively, contributors argue that the treaties were at best a mitigated success, and that the "brave new world" of 1919 cannot be separated from the Great War that preceded it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-17
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781487542757
Förlag:University of Toronto Press

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Mer om författaren

Carl Bouchard is a professor of Modern History and International Relations at the Université de Montréal. Norman Ingram is a professor of Modern French History at Concordia University.

Recensioner i media

"Beyond the Great War rectifies the history of the end of the war by going beyond traditional actors and periodisations, and by emphasising the struggles and imperfections in what is known as the new international order." - Jan Stöckmann (English Historical Review) "What Beyond the Great War demonstrates is how that complexity was reflected in divergent proposals for the creation of a better world. Pacifist and nonpacifist mothers in France held widely differing opinions about how to achieve peace, socialists were equally divided, and the Ligue des droits de l’homme, an institution central to French republicanism, could not agree whether the Treaty of Versailles should be revised. With chapters ranging from the ambiguous nature of Alsace-Lorraine’s return to France to Mary Church Terrell’s struggles to advance racial and gender equality, the book represents a worthy attempt to broaden understanding of the legacy of the conflict." - Alan Sharp, Ulster University (Journal of Modern History)

Innehållsförteckning

1. 1914 or 1919? The Aetiology of a Disordered WorldNorman Ingram and Carl BouchardPart One: Internationalism and Political Disorder2. The Great War and the Political Conditions of InternationalismPeter Jackson and William Mulligan3. Setting Out on a Long Irenic Campaign: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Prepares the Construction of a Peaceful World Order, 1910–1920Andrew Barros 4. European Socialists, the Vienna Union, and the International Political Order after the First World WarTalbot Imlay Part Two: Between Order and Disorder: The Case of France5. Historical Dissent and the Contested Peace of 1919 in FranceNorman Ingram6. Not So Republican After All? The Ambiguous End of the Great War in Alsace-Lorraine, 1918–1919Sebastian Döderlein 7. The "Right to Reparations": A Legal Concept in Postwar FranceBruno Cabanes 8. The Wilsonians: When the Traditional Order Creates Disorder, 1918–1919Carl BouchardPart Three: Science, Gender, and Race in a Disordered Postwar World9. "Building for Peace": American Chemist William Noyes behind Reconciliation Efforts, 1919–1924Marie-Eve Chagnon10. So That Our Sons Have Not Died in Vain: Calls for Peace from Pacifist and Non-pacifist Mothers after the Great WarMarie-Michèle Doucet11. "No Women of the World Hate War and Seek Peace More than the Colored Women": Mary Church Terrell’s Bid for Racial Justice and Women’s Rights in 1919Mona Siegel