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

by Urs Matthias Zachmann (Editor)

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.

Front Jacket

Asia after Versailles: Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order 1919-1933 Edited by Urs Matthias Zachmann The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 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 USA and Asia, and whose systemic structures and troubling legacies still remain with us today. This volume traces the complex story of the Asian response to the Conference, an event that acted as an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations. Bringing together an international range of experts in the history of China, Japan, India and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, this pioneering volume offers a multi-regional and interdisciplinary analysis of the Conference, and demonstrates the importance of Asia in the multifaceted global transformations that followed in its wake. Urs Matthias Zachmann is Professor of History and Culture of Modern Japan at Freie Universität Berlin

Author Biography

Urs Matthias Zachmann is Professor of Modern Japanese History and Culture at Freie Universität Berlin.