Beyond Versailles : Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great War / edited by Marcus M. Payk and Roberta Pergher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Payk, Marcus M., editor.

Pergher, Roberta, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 thatthis transformation of ideas was not the work of the treaty makers alone, but emerged in interaction with nationalist groups, anti-colonial movements, and regional elites who took up the rhetoric of Paris and made it their own. In shifting the spotlight from the palace of Versailles to the peripheries of Europe, Beyond Versailles turns to the treaties' resonance on the ground and shows why the principles of the peace settlement meant different things in different locales. It was in places a long way from Paris?in Polish borderlands and in Portuguese colonies, in contested spaces like Silesia, Teschen, and Danzig, and in states emerging from imperial collapse like Austria, Egypt, and Iran?that notions of nation and sovereignty, legitimacy, and citizenship were negotiated and contested. "This is an excellent collected volume, well-conceived and very well written. . . . This is not at all a top-down history of the diffusion of ideas about national self-determination. Rather, it is an examination of the ways in which these ideas were taken up, re-fashioned, and reasserted at many levels to serve local and regional agendas, while at the same time influencing international debates about the meanings and possible implementations of self-determination." --Pieter M. Judson, author of The Habsburg Empire: A New History

Contents:

Plebiscites and Postwar Legitimacy / Brendan Karch

Teschen and its Impossible Plebiscite: Can the Genie Be Returned to the Lamp? / Isabelle Davion

National Self-Determination and Political Legitimacy after Versailles: Leon Wasilewski and the German-Polish Borderlands, 1919-1939 / Jesse Kauffman

The End of Egypt's Occupation: Ottoman Sovereignty and the British Declaration of Protection / Aimee Genell

Ordering the "Land of Paradox": The Fashioning of Nationality, Religion, and Political Loyalty in Colonial Egypt / Jeffrey Culang

Fashioning the Rest: National Ascription in Austria after the First World War / John Deak

National Claims and the Rights of Others: Italy and its Newly Found Territories after the First World War / Roberta Pergher

Between Race, Nation, and Empire: Tensions of (Inter)-Nationalism in the Early Interwar Period, 1919-1923 / Caio Simões de Araújo

Persian Visions of Nationalism and Inter-Nationalism in a World at War / Timothy Nunan

"Emblems of Sovereignty": The Internationalization of Danzig and the Polish Post Office Dispute, 1919-1925 / Marcus M. Payk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Beyond Versailles

ISBN:

9780253040947

0253040949

Publisher Number:

99980746250

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