Beyond Versailles - by Roberta Pergher (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. June 2019 will mark the 100-year anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles </p> <p>2. The Treaty of Versailles brought an end to World War I, and is a fundamental part of any study of the War as well as any history of peace and conflict negotiation. The approach in this book focused on the lived experience of people caught up in these events.</p> <p>3. Editor Roberta Pergher has numerous publications and has worked with the University of Michigan, the European Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Marcus Payk has published on the history of Germany and Europe in the 20th century, particularly in German publications. Both editors have previous experience editing volumes like this.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The settlement of Versailles was more than a failed peace. What was debated at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920 hugely influenced how nations and empires, sovereignty, and the international order were understood after the Great War--and into the present. <i>Beyond Versailles </i>argues that<i> </i>this transformation of ideas was not the work of the treaty makers alone, but emerged in interaction with nationalist groups, anti-colonial movements, and regional elites who took up the rhetoric of Paris and made it their own. In shifting the spotlight from the palace of Versailles to the peripheries of Europe, <i>Beyond Versailles </i>turns to the treaties' resonance on the ground and shows why the principles of the peace settlement meant different things in different locales. It was in places a long way from Paris--in Polish borderlands and in Portuguese colonies, in contested spaces like Silesia, Teschen and Danzig, and in states emerging from imperial collapse like Austria, Egypt, and Iran--that notions of nation and sovereignty, legitimacy, and citizenship were negotiated and contested. </p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Marcus M. Payk is Professor of Modern History at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He is author of <i>Frieden durch Recht? Der Aufstieg des modernen Völkerrechts und der Friedensschluss nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg</i>.</p> <p>Roberta Pergher is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of <i>Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922-1943</i>.</p></p>
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