Beyond the Great War: Making Peace in a Disordered World - Hardcover

Carl Bouchard; Norman Ingram

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1487542747 ISBN 13: 9781487542740

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Carl Bouchard is a professor of Modern History and International Relations at the Université de Montréal.
<br /><br />Norman Ingram is a professor of Modern French History at Concordia University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487542747
• ISBN 13: 9781487542740
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Bouchard Carl, Ingram Norman