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Asia after Versailles: Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-33
Urs Matthi Zachmann
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Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Zachmann, Urs Matthias. Series: Edinburgh East Asian Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; JH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This volume traces the complex story of the Asian response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations. 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, and whose systemic structures and troubling legacies it created still remain, in part, with us today. In this momentous development, Asian countries and people played a significant ... Read more
This volume traces the complex story of the Asian response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations. 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, and whose systemic structures and troubling legacies it created still remain, in part, with us today. In this momentous development, Asian countries and people played a significant ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Edinburgh East Asian Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474417167
SKU
V9781474417167
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About Urs Matthi Zachmann
Urs Matthias Zachmann is Handa Chair in Japanese-Chinese Relations in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.
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