1st Edition
Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace
Introduction: Of War and Peace: Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles
B. J. C. McKercher and Erik Goldstein
1. The Quest for Stability: British War Aims and Germany, 1914–1918
B. J. C. McKercher
2. “A House of Cards Which Would Not Stand”: James Headlam-Morley, the Role of Experts, and the Danzig Question at the Paris Peace Conference
D. B. Kaufman
3. “The Light of History”: Scholarship and Offi cialdom in the Era of the First World War
T. G. Otte
4. Lloyd George and the American Naval Challenge: “The Naval Battle of Paris”
John H. Maurer
5. From Caxton Hall to Genoa via Fontainebleau and Cannes: David Lloyd George’s Vision of Post-War Europe
Alan Sharp
6. Cultural Heritage, British Diplomacy, and the German Peace Settlement of 1919
Erik Goldstein
7. Great Britain in French Policy Conceptions at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
Peter Jackson
8. Germany, Versailles, and the Limits of Nationhood
Conan Fischer
Biography
BJC McKercher is Professor of International History at the University of Victoria. He writes on modern British foreign policy and has been editor of Diplomacy & Statecraft since 2007.
Erik Goldstein is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. Amongst his publications, many of them relate to the Paris Peace Conference era. He is the founding editor of Diplomacy & Statecraft.
