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The unfinished peace after World War I : America, Britain and the stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932 /

"This is a highly original and revisionist analysis of British and American efforts to forge a stable Euro-Atlantic peace order between 1919 and the rise of Hitler. Patrick O. Cohrs argues that this order was not founded at Versailles but rather through the first 'real' peace settleme...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohrs, Patrick O.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Colección:Cambridge books online.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue: The truncated peace of Versailles and its consequences, 1919-1923
  • The wider challenges: The legacy of the Great War and the era of imperialism
  • Wilson, Lloyd George and the quest for a 'peace to end all wars'
  • The ill-founded peace of 1919
  • The escalation of Europe's post-Versailles crisis, 1920-1923
  • The escalation of Europe's post-Versailles crisis, 1920-1923
  • pt. I. The Anglo-American stabilisation of Europe, 1923-1924
  • Towards a Progressive transformation of European politics: The reorientation of American stabilisation policy, 1921-1923
  • Towards transatlantic co-operation and a new European order: The reorientation of British stabilisation policy, 1922-1924
  • The turning-point: The Anglo-American intervention in the Ruhr crisis
  • From antagonism to accommodation: The reorientation of French and German postwar policies, 1923-1924
  • The two paths to the London conference: The Dawes process and the recasting of European international politics
  • The first 'real' peace settlement after World War I: The London agreement of 1924 and the consequences of the 'economic peace'.
  • pt. II. Europe's nascent Pax Anglo-Americana, 1924-1925
  • The dawning of a Progressive Pax Americana in Europe?
  • Towards the Locarno pact: Britain's quest for a new European concert, 1924-1925
  • Regression?: US policy and the 'political insurance' of Europe's 'economic peace'
  • Beyond irreconcilable differences?: New German and French approaches to European security
  • The path to Locarno--and its transatlantic dimension
  • The second 'real' peace settlement after World War I: The Locarno conference and the emergence of a new European concert.
  • pt. III: The unfinished transatlantic peace order: the system of London and Locarno, 1926-1929
  • Sustaining stability, legitimating peaceful change: The challenges of the latter 1920s
  • Progressive visions and limited commitments: American stabilisation efforts in the era of London and Locarno
  • 'Reciprocity'?: Britain as 'honest broker' in the Locarno system
  • The new European concert--and its limits
  • Thoiry--the failed quest for a 'final postwar agreement'
  • Towards peaceful change in eastern Europe?: The crux of transforming Polish-German relations
  • Achievements and constraints: The European security system of the latter 1920s
  • No 'new world order': The limits of the Kellogg-Briand pact
  • The initiation of the Young process: The final bid to fortify the system of London and Locarno
  • The last 'grand bargain' after World War I: The Hague settlement of 1929 and its aftermath
  • Epilogue: The disintegration of the unfinished transatlantic peace order, 1930-1932--an inevitable demise?
  • Conclusion: The incipient transformation of international politics after World War I--learning processes and lessons.