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This book is the author's attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells chronicles the unfolding events and public reaction as witnessed by the inhabitants of one house in rural Essex. Each of the characters tries in a different way to keep their bearings in a world suddenly changed beyond...
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Timothy W. Crawford's The Power to Divide examines the use of wedge strategies, a form of divisive statecraft designed to isolate adversaries from allies and potential supporters to gain key advantages. With a multidimensional argument about the power of accommodation in competition, and a survey of alliance diplomacy around both World Wars, The Power to Divide artfully analyzes the past and future performance of wedge strategy in great power politics....
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Thomas J. Knock is Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of The Rise of a Prairie Statesman and coauthor of The Crisis of American Foreign Policy (both Princeton).
A close look at Woodrow Wilson's political thought and international diplomacy
In the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson's epic quest for a new world...
4) Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great War
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Ten essays analyzing the history and effects of the Paris Peace Conference following World War I.
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...
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In Wilsonian Visions, James McAllister recovers the history of the most influential forum of American liberal internationalism in the immediate aftermath of the First World War: The Williamstown Institute of Politics. Established in 1921 by Harry A. Garfield, the president of Williams College, the Institute was dedicated to promoting an informed perspective on world politics even as the United States, still gathering itself after World War I, retreated...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Treaty of Versailles in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Treaty of Versailles. The First World War had left Europe in a state of almost total devastation. Eager to seek revenge, the Allied powers came together to draft the Treaty of Versailles, which would see Germany pay reparations to the victors and the borders...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le traité de Versailles en moins d'une heure !
Le 28 juin 1919, la signature du traité de Versailles entre les puissances alliées et l'Allemagne vaincue met officiellement fin à la Première Guerre mondiale. Ce traité de paix, censé garantir l'entente européenne, s'avère être un véritable échec diplomatique. En privilégiant leurs propres intérêts aux dépens d'une Allemagne humiliée et...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el Tratado de Versalles, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir el contexto que rodea a la firma del Tratado de Versalles, al final de la I Guerra Mundial, ante una Alemania exhausta
• Profundizar en el papel de los principales personajes y países implicados en la firma del tratado, y en las...
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