"Why does 1919 deserve further study and debate 100 years later? What lessons for global history may we learn from the world order created at the end of the Great War? Drawing insight from the global turn of the past several decades that has forced us toreconsider the most important world events and processes since the French Revolution and especially the growing interest in World War I as a global conflict that extended far beyond the borders of Europe, this volume explores the global political ramifications of the treaties prepared at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 by focusing on key topics: How the Paris Peace Conference re-shaped the geo-political configurations of the Middle East, the importance of transformations in Asia and particularly Chinain the immediate post-war period, the shifts in south-eastern Europe, new feminist movements in Central Europe, and the pre-history of neo-liberalism. Read together, the papers demonstrate how the peace treaties signed in 1919 and 1920 marked a profound transformation on local, national, continental, and global scales"--
Why does 1919 deserve further study and debate a hundred years later? What lessons for global history may we learn from the world order created at the end of the Great War? Drawing insight from the global turn of the past several decades that has forced us to reconsider the most important world events and processes since the French Revolution and especially the growing interest in World War I as a global conflict that extended far beyond the borders of Europe, this volume explores the global political ramifications of the treaties prepared at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 by focusing on key topics: how the Paris Peace Conference re-shaped the geo-political configurations of the Middle East, the importance of transformations in Asia and particularly China in the immediate postwar period, the shifts in Southeastern Europe, new feminist movements in Central Europe, and the pre-history of neoliberalism.
Read together, the papers demonstrate how the peace treaties signed in 1919 and 1920 marked a profound transformation on local, national, continental, and global scales.
This book explores how the Paris Peace Conference re-shaped the geo-political configurations of the Middle East, the importance of transformations in Asia and particularly China in the immediate post-war period, the shifts in south-eastern Europe, new feminist movements in Central Europe, and the pre-history of neo-liberalism.
Introduction: A World Made and Unmade. Part I: Revisiting the Peace in
Europe. 1 A Peace Falling Between Two Stools
2. A Century of French
Historiography on the Treaty of Versailles
3. The Versailles Treaty and the
German Imperial Mindscape: The Navy, the Colonial East, and the Impossible
Peace in Postwar Germany. Part II: Peripheries of Peace?
4. Solving the
Schleswig Question: Danish Agitation and International Reception of the
Schleswig Plebiscite
5. International Women in National Politics: The Little
Entente of Women and the Role of Self-Determination in East Central Europe in
the Wake of
1919. 6. Unlikely Internationalists: Ottoman-Turkish Views on the
League of Nations During the Paris Peace Conference Part III: China, A
Missing Peace? 7 Chinese Interpretations of the Great War, the Versailles
Peace, and May Fourth.
8. Local Networks With Global Reach: Sichuanese
Citizen-Journalists Reporting From the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the
Formation of Public Opinion in China
9. The Meanings of the 1919 Moment in
China: Sovereignty, Connectivity, and National Awakening. Part IV: The Birth
of Global Governance. 10 Peace (Re)settlement: The Treaty of Versailles and
the Reshaping of Global Migration Governance.
11. World War I, the Paris
Peace Conference, and Conflicts Over Global Health Governance
12.
Neoliberalism and Peace: Libéralisme Constructif and Global Governance after
the First World War. Epilogue: The Unsettling Settlement of 1919
Albert Wu is an associate research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan. Trained as a global historian, his work lies at the intersection of the histories of imperialism, religion, and medicine. He is the author of From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 18601950 (2016).
Stephen W. Sawyer is the Ballantine-Leavitt Professor of History and Director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris. He has published widely on French political and diplomatic history, including two books: Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 18401880 (2018) and Adolphe Thiers: La contingence et le pouvoir (2018).
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