Table of Contents

Introduction: The Riddles of Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference
1: The Agents and Structures of Peacemaking
2: The Sovereignty of Justice
3: The "Unmixing" of Lands
4: The "Unmixing" of Peoples
5: Mastering Revolution
6: Sovereignty and the League of Nations, 1920-1923
Conclusion: History, IR, and the Paris Peace Conference

About the Author

Leonard V. Smith is Frederick B. Arz Professor of History at Oberlin College, Ohio. He has previously written extensively about France and the Great War. His first book, Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War I (1994) won the Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association. France and the Great War, 1914-1918 (co-authored with Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker,
2003) won the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize from the Western Front Association. Smith is also the author of The Embattled Self: French Soldiers Testimony of the Great War (2007).

Reviews

Lucid study.
*Financial Times*

A formidable tour-de-force ... Smith combines clear-cut analytical concepts with an impressive overview to produce a compelling historical synthesis of the decision-making of the 'world sovereign' ... it should be essential reading for anyone interested in the ramifications of the First World War, the interwar years, and the League of Nations...
*Haakon A Ikonomou, European History Quarterly*