Neue Publikation von Prof. Urs Matthias Zachmann (Arbeitsbereich Geschichte und Kultur)

Urs Matthias Zachmann (ed.), Asia After Versailles: Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-1933, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 256 pp

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.