The Treaty of Versailles : a reassessment after 75 years
"This 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 American, British, and French 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1998
German Historical Institute ; Cambridge University Press, Washington, D.C., Cambridge, UK, 1998
History
xii, 674 pages ; 24 cm
9780521621328, 0521621321
38738957
Introduction / Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser
Prologue: 1919-1945-1989 / Ronald Steel
Germany's peace aims and the domestic and international constraints / Klaus Schwabe
"Had we known how bad things were in Germany, we might have got stiffer terms": Great Britain and the German armistice / David French
French war aims and peace planning / David Stevenson
Wilsonian concepts and international realities at the end of the war / Thomas J. Knock
A comment / Alan Sharp
Great Britain: the home front / Erik Goldstein
The French peacemakers and their home front / Georges-Henri Soutou
The American mission to negotiate peace: an historian looks back / Lawrence E. Gelfand
Between Compiègne and Versailles: the Germans on the way from a misunderstood defeat to an unwanted peace / Fritz Klein
A comment / Antony Lentin
The minorities question at the Paris Peace Conference: the Polish Minority Treaty, June 28, 1919 / Carole Fink
The Rhineland question: West European security at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 / Stephen A. Schuker
The Polish question / Piotr S. Wandycz
Smoke and mirrors: in smoke-filled rooms and the Galerie des Glaces / Sally Marks
The making of the economic peace / Elisabeth Glaser
The balance of payments question: Versailles and after / Niall Ferguson
A comment / Gerald D. Feldman
The Soviet Union and Versailles / Jon Jacobson
Versailles and international diplomacy / William R. Keylor
The League of Nations: toward a new appreciation of its history / Antoine Fleury
A comment / Diane B. Kunz
Max Weber and the peace treaty of Versailles / Wolfgang J. Mommsen
The construction of the American interpretation: the pro-treaty version / William C. Widenor
British revisionism / Michael Graham Fry
Woodrow Wilson's image of Germany, the war-guilt question, and the Treaty of Versailles / Manfred F. Boemeke
A comment / Gordon Martel