Lights That Failed European International History 1919-1933

Name: Lights That Failed European International History 1919-1933
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ISBN: 9780199226863

ISBN-10: 0199226865

ISBN-13: 9780199226863

Edition: 2007

Authors: Zara Steiner

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The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war. In The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges the common assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening of a second European war. In a radically original way, this book characterizes the 1920s not as a frustrated prelude to a second global conflict but as afascinating decade in its own right, when politicians and diplomats strove to re-assemble a viable European order. Steiner examines the efforts that failed but also those which gave hope for future promise, many of which…

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List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 960
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.89" tall
Weight: 2.816
Language: English

Zara Steiner is Senior Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.




The Reconstruction of Europe, 1918-1929



The Hall of Mirrors: Peacemaking in the West



Distant Frontiers: Peacemaking in the East



Revolution from the Left: The Soviet Union and the Post-War Settlement



The Primacy of Economics: Reconstruction in Western Europe, 1919-1924



The Primacy of Nationalism: Reconstruction in Eastern and Central Europe



Revolution from the Right: Italy, 1919-25



The Geneva Dream: The League of Nations and Post-War Internationalism



New Dawn? Stabilisation in Western Europe after Locarno



Faltering Reconstruction: Cracks in the Locarno Facade



Troubled Waters: Uncertainties in Italy, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union



Faltering Internationalism: Disarmament and Security after Locarno Conclusion: Europe Reconstructed?



The Hinge Years, 1930-1933



The Diplomacy of the Depression: Economics and Foreign Policy



Beyond Europe: The Manchurian Crisis



The Poisoned Chalice: The Pursuit of Disarmament Conclusion: The Hinge


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