Beyond the Great War : : Making Peace in a Disordered World / / ed. by Carl Bouchard, Norman Ingram.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 2 b&w illustrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
1 1914 or 1919? The Aetiology of a Disordered World --
Internationalism and Political Disorder --
2 The Great War and the Political Conditions of Internationalism --
3 Setting Out on a Long Irenic Campaign: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Prepares the Construction of a Peaceful World Order, 1910–1920 --
4 Three Visions of Internationalism: European Socialists after the First World War --
Between Order and Disorder: The Case of France --
5 Historical Dissent and the Contested Peace of 1919 in France --
6 Not So Republican after All? The Ambiguous End of the Great War in Alsace-Lorraine, 1918–1919 --
7 The “Right to Reparations,” a Legal Concept in Post-war France --
8 The Wilsonians: When the Traditional Order Creates Disorder (1918–1919) --
Science, Gender, and Race in a Disordered Post-war World --
9 “Building for Peace”: American Chemist William Noyes behind Reconciliation Efforts (1919–1924) --
10 So That Our Sons Have Not Died in Vain: Calls for Peace from Pacifist and Non-pacifist Mothers after the Great War --
11 “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 1919 --
Contributors --
Index
Summary: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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781487542764
9783110767155
DOI:10.3138/9781487542764
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Carl Bouchard, Norman Ingram.