Asia after Versailles: Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-33

Asia after Versailles: Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-33
ISBN-10
1474417175
ISBN-13
9781474417174
Category
Political Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2017-05-22
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Urs Matthias Zachmann

Description

Asia After Versailles addresses an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The Conference marked the end of a conflict which, although intrinsically European, had globalized the world on many levels, politically as well as economically, culturally and socially. It also stood at the beginning of a new order that saw the power centre shift towards the US and Asia. Asian countries and people played a significant but so far largely neglected role in this momentous development. Bringing together an international range of experts in the history of China, Japan, India and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, this pioneering volume demonstrates the importance of Asia in the multifaceted global transformations that revolved around the Paris Peace Conference and its aftermath. Traditional historical analysis focuses almost exclusively on US and European responses to the Paris Peace Conference and the interwar order and often fails to take into account non-western, particularly Asian voices - this is the first book to demonstrate the far-reaching Asian dimensions of the impact of Versailles in an unprecedented way making this an invaluable and interdisciplinary resource for academics and researchers in the fields of politics, international relations, area studies and history

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