The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years

The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years,
edited by Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, Elisabeth Glaser

This volume on the making of the Treaty of Versailles has been published in September 1998 by Cambridge University Press. It presents a fresh evaluation of one of the most controversial themes of modern European history by a group of international experts. This web site offers an outline of the major themes of the book, as well as links to read the introductory chapter, professional reviews, or to contact the main archives, related institutions, and consult pertinent materials, photographs, and documents.
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Background

From the introduction to the volume: "The 1919 treaty left an enduring mark on twentieth century historiography. Even now, the reason for the ultimate collapse of the Versailles system remains disputed. A group of German and American historians concluded in 1992 that a reassessment of the peace settlement from an international perspective after seventy-five years would therefore be particularly timely. In May 1994 experts from France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, and the United States gathered to reconstruct the making of the treaty by discussing the latest archival evidence and the extant literature. The conference took place under the auspices of the Center for German and European Studies and the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. The resulting reappraisal constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship."

Contents
Peace Planning and the Actualities of the Armistice;
The Peacemakers and their Homefronts;
The Reconstruction of Europe and the Settlement of Accounts;
The Legacy and the Consequences of Versailles;
Antecedents and Aftermaths;
Reflections on the War-Guilt Question and the Settlement.

Links to more information about the book:
Read:
The full table of contents,
the introduction to the volume,
some reviews and comments about the volume,
very important information how to order the volume,
a list of journals that might be interested in publishing a review of the volume.

Links to other materials relating to the book:

See photographs of Wilson, Foch, and Clemenceau, and other materials from the peace conference,or
read documents and excerpts relating to the conference and the treaty

Links to other sites:

Contact the institutes that organized the 1994 conference, the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., and the Center for German and European Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

See the web sites of some of the most important document repositories, like
the Public Record Office at Kew,
the Archives Diplomatiques of the French Foreign Ministry in Paris,
the Archives Nationales in Paris, the National Archives in Washington D.C. and College Park, MD,
the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress,
the Manuscript collection at Sterling Library, Yale University,
and the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz and Berlin-Lichterfelde, Germany .

By linking to other web sites, read the full text of the Treaty, a list of documents relating to World War I and postwar developments , learn about forthcoming scholarly meetings on the Treaty of Versailles, or access a list of archives with addresses and links.

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