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


Table of Contents

Introduction     Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser

Prologue: 1919-1945-1989     Ronald Steel

PART ONE
PEACE PLANNING AND THE ACTUALITIES OF THE ARMISTICE

1    Germany's Peace Aims and the Domestic and International Constraints    Klaus Schwabe

2    "Had We Known How Bad Things Were in Germany, We Might Have Got Stiffer Terms":
     Great Britain and the German Armistice   David French

3    French War Aims and Peace Planning   David Stevenson

4    Wilsonian Concepts and International Realities at the End of the War    Thomas J. Knock

5    A Comment by    Alan Sharp
 


PART TWO
THE PEACEMAKERS AND THEIR HOME FRONTS

6    Great Britain: The Home Front   Erik Goldstein

7    The French Peacemakers and Their Homefront   Georges-Henri Soutou

8    The American Mission to Negotiate Peace: An Historian Looks Back    Lawrence E. Gelfand

9    Between Compiègne and Versailles: The Germans on the Way from a Misunderstood Defeat to
     an Unwanted Peace    Fritz Klein

10  A Comment    Antony Lentin

PART THREE
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE AND THE SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS

11    The Minorities Question at the Paris Peace Conference: The Polish Minority Treaty, June 28, 1919    Carole Fink

12    The Rhineland Question: West European Security at the Paris Peace Conference    Stephen A. Schuker

13    The Polish Question    Piotr S. Wandycz

14    Smoke and Mirrors: In Smoke-Filled Roomas and the Galerie des Glaces    Sally Marks

15    The Making of the Economic Peace    Elisabeth Glaser

16    The Balance of Payments Question: Versailles and After    Niall Ferguson

17    A Comment    Gerald D. Feldman
 

PART FOUR
THE LEGACY AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF VERSAILLES


18    The Soviet Union    Jon Jacobson

19    Versailles and International Diplomacy    William R. Keylor

20    The League of Nations: Towrd a New Approach of its History    Antoine Fleury

21    A Comment    Diane B. Kunz
 

PART FIVE
ANTECEDENTS AND AFTERMATHS:
REFLECTIONS ON THE WAR-GUILT QUESTION AND THE SETTLEMENT

22    Max Weber and the Peace Treaty of Versailles    Wolfgang J. Mommsen

23    The Construction of the American Interpretation: The Pro-Treaty Version    William C. Widenor

24    British Revisionism    Michael Graham Fry

25    Woodrow Wilson's Image of Germany, the War-Guilt Question, and the Treaty of Versailles    Manfred F. Boemeke

26    A Comment    Gordon Martel
 

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