Protecting Democracy from Dissent: Population Engineering in Western Europe 1918-1926

by Shannon Monaghan

In the aftermath of the First World War, the victorious powers - more or less liberal democracies - argued that democracy would bring peace to Europe because this was the only effective way for legitimate states, with governments based on the consent of the governed, to be organized. What the victorious statesmen failed to foresee was how much conflict this postwar settlement would provoke, since it was far from clear exactly which people should...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138743984
• ISBN13: 9781138743984
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages