Democracy and Peace Making : Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973.
Title:
Democracy and Peace Making : Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973.
Author:
Towle, Philip.
ISBN:
9780203165003
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Whigs and Tories in 1815: imposing a government -- Bismarck and Favre in 1870: nationality and territory -- Kitchener, Milner, Smuts and De Wet in 1902: surrender and reconciliation -- Witte and Komura in 1905: indemnities and exactions -- Lloyd George and Foch in 1919: the destruction of militarism -- The British debates in 1919 and 1933: victory in battle, defeat in the mind -- Hitler and Churchill in 1942: objectives in war -- Bishops, lawyers and war crimes trials -- Turner Joy and Nam Il in 1952: prisoners of war or hostages? -- Cabot Lodge and Tran Buu Kiem in Paris in 1969: compromise and surrender -- Democracy and peacemaking -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Democracy and Peace Making is an invaluable and up-to-date account of the process of peace making, which draws on the most recent historical thinking. It surveys the post-war peace settlements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: * the Vienna congress of 1815 * the Treaty of Versailles * the peace settlements of the Second World War * peace talks after the Korean War * the Paris Peace Accords of 1973.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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