Description
About the Author
Volker Prott is lecturer in modern European history at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include Franco-German history, the history of the First World War, and the Interwar Period, as well as Cold War history. In particular, his work explores the historical dynamics of nationalism, ethnic violence, expertise, and political decision-making. His research is driven by comparative and transnational approaches and draws on social science theories. He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and was post-doctoral research and teaching fellow at the University of Tubingen in Germany.
Reviews
Prott's work has the great merit of theorizing Wilsonian ideology and its application in First World War Europe, combining social and international perspectives and underlining the distance between the original idealism and its pragmatic application. It is undoubtedly based on an enormous amount of archival research. The book represents a sincere attempt at understanding the consequences that national self determination had in Europe, and has great value for all those scholars interested in the historical process that led to the remaking of territories and, though indirectly, of national identities. * Giuseppe Motta, Sapienza University of Rome, European History Quarterly *
insightful ... a wide-ranging and multidimensional study of the politics of self-determination in the years following the First World War ... Volker Prott has offered us an absorbing and enlightening addition to the literature on the First World War and its aftermath, which supplements the existing literature very nicely indeed. * Conan Fischer, H-Nationalism *
Recommended. * CHOICE *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198777847
Author Volker Prott
Format Hardback
Page Count 278
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 550g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 164mm * 20mm