The global challenge of peace : 1919 as a contested threshold to a new world order / edited by Matt Perry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perry, Matt, 1967- editor.

Series:

Studies in labour history.

Liverpool scholarship online.

Studies in labour history

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Modern--20th century.

History, Modern.

World politics--1900-1945.

World politics.

Nineteen nineteen, A.D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This title scrutinises the events of 1919 from below: the global underside of the Wilsonian moment. During 1919 the Great Powers redrew the map of the world with the Treaties of Paris and established the League of Nations intending to prevent future war. Yet what is often missed is that 1919 was a complex threshold between war and peace contested on a global scale. This process began prior to war's end with mutinies, labour and consumer unrest, colonial revolt but reached a high point in 1919. Most obviously, the Russian Revolutions of 1917 continued into 1919 which signalled a decisive year for the Bolshevik regime. While the leaders of the Great Powers famously drew up new states in their Parisian hotel rooms, state formation also had a popular dynamic. The Irish Republic was declared. Afghanistan gained independence. Labour unrest was widespread.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

I Race, Labour and Empire

1 The Black and the Red

2 Revisiting Red Clydeside

3 The 1919 Mutinies in the French Armed Forces

4 C. L. R. James, the Mass Strike of 1919 in Colonial Trinidad and The Case for West Indian Self-Government

II Transnationalism Women's Activism in 1919

5 Sylvia Pankhurst in 1919

6 Women as Peacemakers

7 1919: Opportunities and Constraints for Women Activists

III Revolution and Counter-Revolution

8 The Forward March of Reactionary Working-Class Politics?

9 1919: Revolution in Austria

10 The 'Soviet Ark' in Context

IV Contested Transitions to Peace

11 Nationalism and Revolution

12 Educating the Peace

13 British Military Missions as Intermediaries between Western Europe and Lithuania in 1919 and the 1920s

V Reinterpretations of 1919

14 The General Strike of July 1919

15 The German Revolution at War's End

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 30, 2021).

ISBN:

1-80085-279-7

1-80085-751-9

OCLC:

1263027646