The Treaty of Versailles

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Acknowledgments Introduction Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser Prologue: 1919-1945-1989 Ronald Steel Part I. Peace Planning and the Actualities of the Armistice: 1. Germany's peace aims and the domestic and international constraints Klaus Schwabe 2. 'Had we known how bad things were in Germany, we might have got stiffer terms': Great Britain and the German Armistice David French 3. French war aims and peace planning David Stevenson 4. Wilsonian concepts and international realities at the end of the war Thomas J. Knock 5. A comment Alan Sharp Part II. The Peacemakers and their Home Fronts: 6. Great Britain: the home front Erik Goldstein 7. The French peacemakers and their home front Georges-Henri Soutou 8. The American mission to negotiate peace: an historian looks back Lawrence E. Gelfand 9. Between Compiegne and Versailles: the Germans on the way from a misunderstood defeat to an unwanted peace Fritz Klein 10. A comment Antony Lentin Part III. The Reconstruction of Europe and the Settlement of Accounts: 11. The Minorities question at the Paris Peace Conference: the Polish Minority Treaty, June 28, 1919 Carole Fink 12. The Rhineland question: West European Security at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 Stephen A. Schuker 13. The Polish question Piotr S. Wandycz 14. Smoke and mirrors: in smoke-filled rooms and the Galeries des Glaces Sally Marks 15. The making of the economic peace Elisabeth Glaser 16. The balance of payments question: Versailles and after Niall Ferguson 17. A comment Gerald D. Feldman Part IV. The Legacy and Consequences of Versailles: 18. The Soviet Union and Versailles Jon Jacobson 19. Versailles and international diplomacy William R. Keylor 20. The League of Nations: toward a new appreciation of its history Antoine Fleury 21. A comment Diane B. Kunz Part V. Antecedents and Aftermaths: Reflections on the War Guilt Question and the Settlement: 22. Max Weber and the Peace Treaty of Versailles Wolfgang J. Mommsen 23. The construction of the American interpretation: the pro-Treaty version William C. Widenor 24. British revisionism Michael Graham Fry 25. Woodrow Wilson's image of Germany, the war-guilt question, and the Treaty of Versailles Michael Graham Fry 26. A comment Gordon Martel Bibliography Index.