1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910861973603321

Autore

Bouchard Carl

Titolo

Beyond the Great War : Making Peace in a Disordered World

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-4875-4275-5

1-4875-4276-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Classificazione

cci1icc

Altri autori (Persone)

IngramNorman

Disciplina

940.3141

Soggetti

International relations - History - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Europe, Western - Peace

World War, 1914-1918 - France - Peace

HISTORY / Military / World War I

History

Western Europe

France

France Politique et gouvernement 1914-1940

France Politics and government 1914-1940

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1914 or 1919? The Aetiology of a Disordered World / Norman Ingram and Carl Bouchard -- The Great War and the Political Conditions of Internationalism / Peter Jackson and William Mulligan -- Setting Out on a Long Irenic Campaign: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Prepares the Construction of a Peaceful World Order, 1910-1920 / Andrew Barros -- European Socialists, the Vienna Union and the International Political Order after the First World War / Talbot Imlay -- Historical Dissent and the Contested Peace of 1919 in France / Norman Ingram -- Not so Republican After All? The Ambiguous End of the Great War in Alsace-Lorraine, 1918-1919 / Sebastian Döderlein -- The "Right to Reparations", a Legal Concept in Post-war France / Bruno Cabanes -- The Wilsonians - when the traditional order creates disorder (1918-1919) / Carl Bouchard -- "Building for Peace": American Chemist



William Noyes Behind Reconciliation Efforts (1919-1924) / Marie-Eve Chagnon -- So That Our Sons Have Not Died in Vain: Calls for Peace from Pacifist and Nonpacifist Mothers after the Great War / Marie-Michèle Doucet -- "No Women of the World Hate War and Seek Peace More than the Colored Women": Mary Church Terrell's Bid for Racial Justice and Women's Rights in 1919 / Mona L. Siegel.

Sommario/riassunto

"Was the end of the First World War a catalyst for progress or the harbinger of future conflict? The essays in this collection address the impact of the end of the First World War, with a focus on the extent to which the end of the war and the Paris peace process encouraged or disrupted the nascent international order. The focus is on western Europe, particularly France. Among the topics addressed are the relationship between gender and peace activism, international and trans-Atlantic connections, and the significance of French domestic politics to international relations. Collectively, the essays extend the ongoing debate about the success of the Treaty of Versailles: they add nuance to the debate by showing how particular issues combined both success and failure. The volume should be of interest to military, diplomatic, and international historians, with particular chapters of interest to a wider range of scholars in European history."--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910258750003321

Autore

Ellis Cristin <1978->

Titolo

Antebellum Posthuman : Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / / Cristin Ellis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

NY, : Fordham University Press, 2018

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

9780823278473

0823278476

9780823278466

0823278468

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 PDF (232 pages))

Classificazione

HIS036050LIT006000SOC001000

Disciplina

144

305.8097309034

Soggetti

Humanism - United States - History - 19th century

Racism - United States - History - 19th century

United States Race relations History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from eBook information screen..

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. beyond recognition : the problem of antebellum embodiment -- 1. Douglass's animals : racial science and the problem of human equality -- 2. Thoreau's seeds : evolution and the problem of human agency -- 3. Whitman's cosmic body : bioelectricity and the problem of human meaning -- 4. Posthumanism and the problem of social justice : race and materiality in the twenty-first century -- Coda. After romantic posthumanism.

Sommario/riassunto

From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" to the Civil Rights-era declaration "I AM a Man," antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race studies today, Antebellum



Posthuman argues that it first emerged as a key question in the antebellum era. In a moment in which the authority of science was increasingly invoked to defend slavery and other racist policies, abolitionist arguments underwent a profound shift, producing a new, materialist strain of antislavery. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman, and Dickinson, Cristin Ellis identifies and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, placing race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought. Turning to contemporary debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum posthumanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist ontologies of the human with the project of social justice.