The Making of a World Order
Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
1st Edition
Published on 29. August 2025
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Paperback/Softback
278 pages
978-1-032-10116-3 (ISBN)
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Why does 1919 deserve further study and debate a hundred years later? What lessons for global history may we learn from the world order created at the end of the Great War? Drawing insight from the global turn of the past several decades that has forced us to reconsider the most important world events and processes since the French Revolution and especially the growing interest in World War I as a global conflict that extended far beyond the borders of Europe, this volume explores the global political ramifications of the treaties prepared at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 by focusing on key topics: how the Paris Peace Conference re-shaped the geo-political configurations of the Middle East, the importance of transformations in Asia and particularly China in the immediate postwar period, the shifts in Southeastern Europe, new feminist movements in Central Europe, and the pre-history of neoliberalism.
Read together, the papers demonstrate how the peace treaties signed in 1919 and 1920 marked a profound transformation on local, national, continental, and global scales.
Read together, the papers demonstrate how the peace treaties signed in 1919 and 1920 marked a profound transformation on local, national, continental, and global scales.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
447 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-10116-3 (9781032101163)
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Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
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Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
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Albert Wu | Stephen W. Sawyer
The Making of a World Order
Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
E-Book
09/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Albert Wu is an associate research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan. Trained as a global historian, his work lies at the intersection of the histories of imperialism, religion, and medicine. He is the author of From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860-1950 (2016).
Stephen W. Sawyer is the Ballantine-Leavitt Professor of History and Director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris. He has published widely on French political and diplomatic history, including two books: Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880 (2018) and Adolphe Thiers: La contingence et le pouvoir (2018).
Stephen W. Sawyer is the Ballantine-Leavitt Professor of History and Director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris. He has published widely on French political and diplomatic history, including two books: Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880 (2018) and Adolphe Thiers: La contingence et le pouvoir (2018).
Content
Introduction: A World Made and Unmade. Part I: Revisiting the "Peace" in Europe. 1 A Peace Falling Between Two Stools 2. A Century of French Historiography on the Treaty of Versailles 3. The Versailles Treaty and the German Imperial Mindscape: The Navy, the Colonial East, and the Impossible Peace in Postwar Germany. Part II: Peripheries of Peace? 4. Solving the Schleswig Question: Danish Agitation and International Reception of the Schleswig Plebiscite 5. International Women in National Politics: The Little Entente of Women and the Role of Self-Determination in East Central Europe in the Wake of 1919. 6. Unlikely Internationalists: Ottoman-Turkish Views on the League of Nations During the Paris Peace Conference Part III: China, A Missing Peace? 7 Chinese Interpretations of the Great War, the Versailles Peace, and "May Fourth". 8. Local Networks With Global Reach: Sichuanese "Citizen-Journalists" Reporting From the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the Formation of Public Opinion in China 9. The Meanings of the 1919 Moment in China: Sovereignty, Connectivity, and National Awakening. Part IV: The Birth of Global Governance. 10 Peace (Re)settlement: The Treaty of Versailles and the Reshaping of Global Migration Governance. 11. World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, and Conflicts Over Global Health Governance 12. Neoliberalism and Peace: Liberalisme Constructif and Global Governance after the First World War. Epilogue: The Unsettling Settlement of 1919