My post for this week is inspired by the following quotation, which I read only two days ago for the first time. It surprised me at first and then struck me as somewhat perceptive. Now, however, I see the authors as having emphasized Germany’s “victory” too much: In strategic terms Germany had won the Great …
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Source Analysis: Paris Peace Conference
Self-determination of peoples was alleged to be a major cornerstone of the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I and culminated in the Treaty of Versailles, among other treaties. Rather than countries in Central and Eastern Europe consisting of empires, the guiding principle was that of the nation-state, with each nation having its own …
Inevitable Historicity 