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The Economic Consequences of the Peace - With a new introduction by Michael Cox (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace - With a new introduction by Michael Cox (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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First published in December 1919, this global bestseller attacking
those who had made the peace in Paris after the First World War,
sparked immediate controversy. It also made John Maynard Keynes
famous overnight and soon came to define how people around the
world viewed the Versailles Peace Treaty. In Germany the book,
which argued against reparations, was greeted with enthusiasm; in
France with dismay; and in the US as ammunition that could be (and
was) used against Woodrow Wilson in his ultimately unsuccessful bid
to sell the League of Nations to an increasingly sceptical American
public. Meanwhile in his own country the book provoked outrage
amongst establishment critics - Keynes was even refused membership
of the prestigious British Academy - while admirers from Winston
Churchill to the founders of the LSE, Sidney and Beatrice Webb,
went on to praise Keynes for his wisdom and humanity. Keynes may
have written what he thought was a reasoned critique of the
economics of the peace settlement. In effect, he had penned a
political bombshell whose key arguments are still being debated
today. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is now reissued by
Keynes' publisher of choice with a new introduction from Michael
Cox, one of the major figures in the field of International
Relations today. Scholarly yet engaged and readable, Cox's
introduction to the work - written a century after the book first
hit the headlines - critically appraises Keynes' polemic
contextualising and bringing to life the text for a new generation
of scholars and students of IR, IPE, Politics and History. The
original text and this authoritative introduction provide essential
reading for anyone who wishes to understand the tragedy that was
the twentieth century; why making peace with former enemies can be
just as hard as winning a war against them; and how and why ideas
really do matter.
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