The Making of peace : rulers, states, and the aftermath of war / edited by Williamson Murray, Jim Lacey
Imprint
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
Descript
xiv, 390 p. : maps ; 23 cm
CONTENT
The Peace of Nicias -- "A swift and sure peace": the Congress of Westphalia 1643-1648 -- The Peace of Paris, 1763 -- In search of military repose: the Congress of Vienna and the making of peace -- War and peace in the post-Civil War South -- Vae victoribus: Bismarck's quest for peace in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 -- Versailles: the peace without a -- "Building buffers and filling vacuums": Great Britain and the Middle East, 1914-1922 -- Mission improbable, fear, culture, and interest: peace making, 1943-1949 -- The economic making of peace -- Ending the Cold War