Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great War

by Roberta Pergher

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. Beyond Versailles argues that this transformation of ideas was not the work of the treaty makers alone, but emerged in interaction with nationalist groups, anti-colonial movements,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253040906
• ISBN13: 9780253040909
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher