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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Beyond Versailles considers how, in the wake of the Paris Peace Treaties, national and regional leaders sought to remake their states in accordance with international agreements while still responding to local preferences and needs.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Plebiscites and Postwar Legitimacy

2. Teschen and Its Impossible Plebiscite: Can the Genie Be Put Back in the Bottle?

3. National Self-Determination and Political Legitimacy after Versailles: Leon Wasilewski and the German-Polish Borderlands, 1919-39

4. The End of Egypt's Occupation: Ottoman Sovereignty and the British Declaration of Protection

5. Ordering the "Land of Paradox": The Fashioning of Nationality, Religion, and Political Loyalty in Colonial Egypt

6. Fashioning the Rest: National Ascription in Austria after the First World War

7. National Claims and the Rights of Others: Italy and Its Newly Found Territories after the First World War

8. Between Race, Nation, and Empire: Tensions of (Inter)-Nationalism in the Early Interwar Period, 1919-23

9. Persian Visions of Nationalism and Inter-Nationalism in a World at War

10. "Emblems of Sovereignty": The Internationalization of Danzig and the Polish Post Office Dispute, 1919-25

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780253040947

0253040949

OCLC:

1060185523