{"product_id":"the-treaty-of-versailles-a-reassessment-after-75-years-hardback-9780521621328","title":"The Treaty of Versailles; A Reassessment after 75 Years (Hardback) 9780521621328","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Treaty of Versailles\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Reassessment after 75 Years\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eManfred F. Boemeke (Edited by), Gerald D. Feldman (Edited by), Elisabeth Glaser (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521621328, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 September 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e688 pages, 6 b\/w illus.  5 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.2 x 15.4 x 4.3 cm, 1.02 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is an altogether admirable purpose, and the essays in this volume are for the most part models of scholarship, their arguments backed up by voluminous footnotes based on government and private archives and the vast amount of published evidence that has become available over the past half century.\"    Norman Rich, Central European History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919, scrutinizing the motives, actions and constraints that informed decision-making by the French, American and English politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the peace settlement. It also addresses German reactions to the draft treaty and the final agreement, as well as Germany's role in the immediate postwar period. The findings call attention to diverging peace aims within the American and Allied camps and underscore the degree to which the negotiators themselves considered the Versailles Treaty a work in progress. A detailed examination of the proceedings from the point of view of the main protagonists forms the core of the investigation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: 1919–1945–1989 Ronald Steel\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Peace Planning and the Actualities of the Armistice: 1. Germany's peace aims and the domestic and international constraints Klaus Schwabe\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Had we known how bad things were in Germany, we might have got stiffer terms': Great Britain and the German Armistice David French\u003cbr\u003e 3. French war aims and peace planning David Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e 4. Wilsonian concepts and international realities at the end of the war Thomas J. Knock\u003cbr\u003e 5. A comment Alan Sharp\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Peacemakers and their Home Fronts: 6. Great Britain: the home front Erik Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e 7. The French peacemakers and their home front Georges-Henri Soutou\u003cbr\u003e 8. The American mission to negotiate peace: an historian looks back Lawrence E. Gelfand\u003cbr\u003e 9. Between Compiègne and Versailles: the Germans on the way from a misunderstood defeat to an unwanted peace Fritz Klein\u003cbr\u003e 10. A comment Antony Lentin\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Reconstruction of Europe and the Settlement of Accounts: 11. The Minorities question at the Paris Peace Conference: the Polish Minority Treaty, June 28, 1919 Carole Fink\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Rhineland question: West European Security at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 Stephen A. Schuker\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Polish question Piotr S. Wandycz\u003cbr\u003e 14. Smoke and mirrors: in smoke-filled rooms and the Galeries des Glaces Sally Marks\u003cbr\u003e 15. The making of the economic peace Elisabeth Glaser\u003cbr\u003e 16. The balance of payments question: Versailles and after Niall Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e 17. A comment Gerald D. Feldman\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Legacy and Consequences of Versailles: 18. The Soviet Union and Versailles Jon Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e 19. Versailles and international diplomacy William R. Keylor\u003cbr\u003e 20. The League of Nations: toward a new appreciation of its history Antoine Fleury\u003cbr\u003e 21. A comment Diane B. Kunz\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Antecedents and Aftermaths: Reflections on the War Guilt Question and the Settlement: 22. Max Weber and the Peace Treaty of Versailles Wolfgang J. Mommsen\u003cbr\u003e 23. The construction of the American interpretation: the pro-Treaty version William C. Widenor\u003cbr\u003e 24. British revisionism Michael Graham Fry\u003cbr\u003e 25. Woodrow Wilson's image of Germany, the war-guilt question, and the Treaty of Versailles Michael Graham Fry\u003cbr\u003e 26. A comment Gordon Martel\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%2220th%20century%20history:%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909226094872,"sku":"9780521621328","price":135.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521621328i_691e4fba-77e2-4c81-a628-71c4217b9cca.jpg?v=1691370654","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-treaty-of-versailles-a-reassessment-after-75-years-hardback-9780521621328","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}