France's Rhineland Policy, 1914-1924
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France's Rhineland Policy, 1914-1924

The Last Bid for a Balance of Power in Europe

  1. 438 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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France's Rhineland Policy, 1914-1924

The Last Bid for a Balance of Power in Europe

About this book

Walter McDougall offers an original analysis of Versailles diplomacy from the standpoint of the power that had the most direct interest and took the first initiatives in the search for a solution to the German problem.

The author's new view of the struggle for execution or revision of the Versailles treaty holds sober implications for assessment of the political origins of international anarchy during the 1930s and European integration in the 1950s. He shows that the Treaty of Versailles was unenforceable, and that the French postwar government, far from enjoying predominance in Europe, suffered from financial crisis and economic and political inferiority to Germany. Versailles was thus the "Boche" peace, and the only path to a stable Europe seemed to lie through permanent restriction of German economic and political unity.

Originally published in 1978.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Beyond Alsace-Lorraine: French War Aims on the Eastern Frontier, 1914-1918
  8. 2. Rhenish Separatism and Paris Peacemaking, 1919
  9. 3. Rhenish Versus German Policy: The Birth of French Revisionism, 1920
  10. 4. Sanctions, Fulfillment, and the Erosion of the Entente, 1921
  11. 5. Poincaré and Diplomatic Deadlock, 1922
  12. 6. France at the Rubicon: The Ruhr Decision, 1922
  13. 7. Economic War on the Rhine and Ruhr: The Struggle of Postwar Revisionisms, 1923
  14. 8. Conflagration: Rhenish Separatism, 1923-1924
  15. 9. Conclusion: The Defeat of French Revisionism
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index