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Book SynopsisThis collection addresses the impact of the end of the First World War and challenges the positive vision of a new world order that emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Trade Review“Beyond the Great War rectifies the history of the end of the war by going beyond traditional actors and periodisations, and by emphasising the struggles and imperfections in what is known as the new international order.” -- Jan Stöckmann *
English Historical Review *
Table of Contents1. 1914 or 1919? The Aetiology of a Disordered World Norman Ingram and Carl Bouchard Part One: Internationalism and Political Disorder 2. The Great War and the Political Conditions of Internationalism Peter Jackson and William Mulligan 3. Setting Out on a Long Irenic Campaign: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Prepares the Construction of a Peaceful World Order, 1910–1920 Andrew Barros 4. European Socialists, the Vienna Union, and the International Political Order after the First World War Talbot Imlay Part Two: Between Order and Disorder: The Case of France 5. Historical Dissent and the Contested Peace of 1919 in France Norman Ingram 6. Not So Republican After All? The Ambiguous End of the Great War in Alsace-Lorraine, 1918–1919 Sebastian Döderlein 7. The “Right to Reparations”: A Legal Concept in Postwar France Bruno Cabanes 8. The Wilsonians: When the Traditional Order Creates Disorder, 1918–1919 Carl Bouchard Part Three: Science, Gender, and Race in a Disordered Postwar World 9. “Building for Peace”: American Chemist William Noyes behind Reconciliation Efforts, 1919–1924 Marie-Eve Chagnon 10. So That Our Sons Have Not Died in Vain: Calls for Peace from Pacifist and Non-pacifist Mothers after the Great War Marie-Michèle Doucet 11. “No Women of the World Hate War and Seek Peace More than the Colored Women”: Mary Church Terrell’s Bid for Racial Justice and Women’s Rights in 1919 Mona Siegel
