Democracy and peacemaking : negotiations and debates, 1815-1973 / Philip Towle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Towle, Philip.

Towle P Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace treaties--History.

Peace treaties.

Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes--History.

Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes.

Pacific settlement of international disputes--History.

Pacific settlement of international disputes.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Democracy and Peace Making is an invaluable and up-to-date account of the process of peace making, which draws on the most recent historical thinking. It surveys the post-war peace settlements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including:* the Vienna congress of 1815* the Treaty of Versailles* the peace settlements of the Second World War* peace talks after the Korean War* the Paris Peace Accords of 1973.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Whigs and Tories in 1815: imposing a government; Bismarck and Favre in 1870: nationality and territory; Kitchener, Milner, Smuts and De Wet in 1902: surrender and reconciliation; Witte and Komura in 1905: indemnities and exactions; Lloyd George and Foch in 1919: the destruction of militarism; The British debates in 1919 and 1933: victory in battle, defeat in the mind; Hitler and Churchill in 1942: objectives in war; Bishops, lawyers and war crimes trials; Turner Joy and Nam Il in 1952: prisoners of war or hostages?

Cabot Lodge and Tran Buu Kiem in Paris in 1969: compromise and surrenderDemocracy and peacemaking; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-61015-7

1-134-61016-5

1-280-32587-9

0-203-27933-6

9786610325870

0-203-16500-4

9780203165003

OCLC:

70753889