Beyond the Great War: making peace in a disordered world

"Following the end of the First World War, a new world order emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was an order riddled with contradictions and problems that were only finally resolved after the Second World War.Beyond the Great War brings together a group of both well-established and younger historians who share a rejection of the dominant view of the peace process that ended the First World War. The book expands beyond the traditional focus on diplomatic and high political history to question the assumption that the Paris Peace Treaties were the progenitors of a new world order. Extending the ongoing debate about the success of the Treaty of Versailles and surrounding events, this collection approaches the heritage of the Great War through a variety of lenses: gender, race, the high politics of diplomacy, the peace movement, provision for veterans, international science, socialism, and the way the war ended. Collectively, contributors argue that the treaties were at best a mitigated success, and that the "brave new world" of 1919 cannot be separated from the Great War that preceded it"--Rabat de la jaquette.

1914 or 1919? The Aetiology of a Disordered World / Norman Ingram and Carl Bouchard -- The Great War and the Political Conditions of Internationalism / Peter Jackson and William Mulligan -- Setting Out on a Long Irenic Campaign: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Prepares the Construction of a Peaceful World Order, 1910-1920 / Andrew Barros -- European Socialists, the Vienna Union and the International Political Order after the First World War / Talbot Imlay -- Historical Dissent and the Contested Peace of 1919 in France / Norman Ingram -- Not so Republican After All? The Ambiguous End of the Great War in Alsace-Lorraine, 1918-1919 / Sebastian Döderlein -- The “Right to Reparations”, a Legal Concept in Post-war France / Bruno Cabanes -- The Wilsonians – when the traditional order creates disorder (1918-1919) / Carl Bouchard -- “Building for Peace”: American Chemist William Noyes Behind Reconciliation Efforts (1919-1924) / Marie-Eve Chagnon -- So That Our Sons Have Not Died in Vain: Calls for Peace from Pacifist and Nonpacifist Mothers after the Great War / Marie-Michèle Doucet -- “No Women of the World Hate War and Seek Peace More than the Colored Women”: Mary Church T…