Beyond Versailles : Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great War

Marcus Payk

ISBN 10: 0253040914 / ISBN 13: 9780253040916

Edité par Indiana University Press Mai 2019, 2019

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Neuware - The settlement of Versailles was more than a failed peace. What was debated at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920 hugely influenced how nations and empires, sovereignty, and the international order were understood after the Great War-and into the present. Beyond Versailles argues that this transformation of ideas was not the work of the treaty makers alone, but emerged in interaction with nationalist groups, anti-colonial movements, and regional elites who took up the rhetoric of Paris and made it their own. In shifting the spotlight from the palace of Versailles to the peripheries of Europe, Beyond Versailles turns to the treaties' resonance on the ground and shows why the principles of the peace settlement meant different things in different locales. It was in places a long way from Paris-in Polish borderlands and in Portuguese colonies, in contested spaces like Silesia, Teschen and Danzig, and in states emerging from imperial collapse like Austria, Egypt, and Iran-that notions of nation and sovereignty, legitimacy, and citizenship were negotiated and contested.

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• Titre: Beyond Versailles : Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great War
• Éditeur: Indiana University Press Mai 2019
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0253040914
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780253040916
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 234 L x 156 H x 15 P (en millimètres) 234 millimètres de largeur par 156 millimètres de hauteur par 15 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 421 grammes

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Synopsis

European historians focus on two critical aspects of the Treaty of Versailles: it was an attempt to carve out a new Europe as determined by the victors of World War I, and it was doomed to failure. In Beyond Versailles, a broad and more nuanced look at the construction of the Treaty provides a rich understanding of the institutions and ideas involved in constructing the new world order. While previous attention has been paid to the treaty architects and their agendas, this collection considers the treaty's resonance for local players responding to the global shifts in power. This volume offers important reappraisals of the shift from the imperial age to the age of nations and examines how notions of nation, sovereignty, and citizenship were negotiated and contested in order to balance popular will with clear constraints against assertions of post-war nationhood. The work questions our understanding of the nation-state as the inevitable outcome of the cataclysms of war and examines the ways in which a world of nations came into being.

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Marcus M. Payk is Professor of Modern History at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He is author of Frieden durch Recht? Der Aufstieg des modernen Völkerrechts und der Friedensschluss nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg.
Roberta Pergher is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922-1943.