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A Political History of Contemporary Europe since 1814. Vol. I

Author(s): Charles Seignobos / Language(s): English

The task in hand, then, is to explain the political transformations of contemporary Europe during this period of eighty years. Being unable to deal with the whole movement of European civilization within the period, I have purposely confined myself to the political history. I have avoided all social phenomena that have had no direct effect on political life: art, science, literature, religion, private manners, and customs. I have sought chiefly to make clear the formation, composition, tactics, and policies of the parties, as being the capital facts determining the fate of institutions. But I have not thought it possible to limit political history to an account of strictly political events and institutions. Aiming above all to explain the phenomena by showing how they are connected with each other, I have reserved room for some non-political facts: local administration, the army, the church, the schools, the press, political theories, economic systems—in all cases in which they have reacted on political life. (extract from Preface)

A Political History of Contemporary Europe since 1814. Vol. II

Author(s): Charles Seignobos / Language(s): English

The task in hand, then, is to explain the political transformations of contemporary Europe during this period of eighty years. Being unable to deal with the whole movement of European civilization within the period, I have purposely confined myself to the political history. I have avoided all social phenomena that have had no direct effect on political life: art, science, literature, religion, private manners, and customs. I have sought chiefly to make clear the formation, composition, tactics, and policies of the parties, as being the capital facts determining the fate of institutions. But I have not thought it possible to limit political history to an account of strictly political events and institutions. Aiming above all to explain the phenomena by showing how they are connected with each other, I have reserved room for some non-political facts: local administration, the army, the church, the schools, the press, political theories, economic systems—in all cases in which they have reacted on political life. (extract from Preface)

Das Nationalitätenproblem. Eine politische Studie über die Polenfrage und die Zukunft Österreich-Ungarns

Author(s): Walther Schücking / Language(s): German

TEXT IS PRINTED IN GERMAN FRAKTURA, TO BE READ ONLY BY READERS BEING FAMILIAR WITH THIS FONT!! // Since 1931 until his death (1935) the author has been the first and only German judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague. // From his introduction: „The following study aims to put one of the most important questions of day-to-day politics in the light of science in a generally understandable form for a larger audience. The glaring light that falls on the aberrations of our reactionary nationalists will at first startle some patriotic readers. However, this reader should have long since become puzzled when he sees the French nationalists rightly portrayed in his "national” daily newspaper as a backward group and when he reads about the atrocities of the Union of Genuine Russian People. Isn't it just a gradual difference in injustice, based on the diversity of culture, between killing or expropriating political opponents? The following pages try to explain the effects of the nationalistic disease on us. May then the wonderful word from the Bible come true: "The truth will make you free".” // Booklet published in 1908 in Dresden by v. Zahn & Jaensch Publisher.

Deutschland und die Mächte vor dem Krieg. In offiziellen Schriften des Prinzen Bernhard von Bülow. Vol I

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): German

"Germany and the powers before the war in official writings of Prince Bernhard von Bülow" was published in 1929 "without his participation" by an "unnamed" (quote). Today's readers are well aware that confidential documents from politics and diplomacy are published without permission. Since this volume is an digitized remake of the 1929 edition, one does not learn much about the further history of the book, or only in the margin in the blurb: "Even if Bülow was expressly against the publication of these letters, they made big waves after publication (...) ". Bülow also died in 1929. One difference to today's secret documents on the Internet is certainly the time lag to the events: these documents date from the years 1903 to 1905, i.e. more than 20 years of buffer until publication --- and the emperor of that time was no longer in power. At the time of these documents, Bülow was Chancellor of the Reich. In addition to communication with numerous ambassadors (Madrid, Paris, London, St. Petersburg etc. etc.), this volume also contains parts of Bülow's correspondence with the emperor. In the age of imperialism and secret diplomacy, Bernhard von Bülow was one of the most powerful politicians. Bülow's top-secret correspondence with the quick-tempered Kaiser Wilhelm II gives an unadulterated insight into the innermost power structures of the German Empire. Based on the numerous letters to German ambassadors abroad, the targeted influence on the foreign powers can also be understood. Even if Bülow was expressly against the publication of these letters, they made waves after their publication and, as an original source, they are still of fundamental importance for today's research.

Deutschland und die Mächte vor dem Krieg. In offiziellen Schriften des Prinzen Bernhard von Bülow. Vol II

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): German

"Germany and the powers before the war in official writings of Prince Bernhard von Bülow" was published in 1929 "without his participation" by an "unnamed" (quote). Today's readers are well aware that confidential documents from politics and diplomacy are published without permission. Since this volume is an digitized remake of the 1929 edition, one does not learn much about the further history of the book, or only in the margin in the blurb: "Even if Bülow was expressly against the publication of these letters, they made big waves after publication (...) ". Bülow also died in 1929. One difference to today's secret documents on the Internet is certainly the time lag to the events: these documents date from the years 1903 to 1905, i.e. more than 20 years of buffer until publication --- and the emperor of that time was no longer in power. At the time of these documents, Bülow was Chancellor of the Reich. In addition to communication with numerous ambassadors (Madrid, Paris, London, St. Petersburg etc. etc.), this volume also contains parts of Bülow's correspondence with the emperor. In the age of imperialism and secret diplomacy, Bernhard von Bülow was one of the most powerful politicians. Bülow's top-secret correspondence with the quick-tempered Kaiser Wilhelm II gives an unadulterated insight into the innermost power structures of the German Empire. Based on the numerous letters to German ambassadors abroad, the targeted influence on the foreign powers can also be understood. Even if Bülow was expressly against the publication of these letters, they made waves after their publication and, as an original source, they are still of fundamental importance for today's research.

Die großen Vier am Werk. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Friedenskonferenz

Author(s): Margarete Rothbarth / Language(s): German

Published in 1921 by DEUTSCHE VERLAGSGESELLSCHAFT FÜR POLITIK UND GESCHICHTE, BERLIN // The author has been fellow employee of the League of Nations. // From her introduction: „To write a history of the peace conference today (=1921) would not only be presumptuous, but an impossibility. On the other hand, posting material that contributes to their knowledge is a duty. That is the consideration that prompted this work. The minutes of the Paris meeting are not yet available. Despite Wilson's "Open covenants openly arrived at"; despite Lloyd George's promises in Parliament. But some “who were there” have already given their testimony. Appointed and uncalled. These publications, all of which have appeared in foreign languages, are the sources for this publication. This book is not written out of party attitudes. Some may derive the justification for a war of revenge from this. But whoever draws this conclusion does not understand the doctrine which it loudly and irrefutably preaches. In proving the inability of the old ideology and diplomacy to bring peace to the world, it is a powerful reminder to get serious about the new attitude.”

Die Minderheitenfrage und die Entstehung der Minderheitenschutzverträge auf der Pariser Friedenskonferenz 1919

Eine Studie zur Geschichte des Nationalitätenproblems im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

Author(s): Erwin Viefhaus / Language(s): German

This eBook edition is a digsimile of an original that has been published as Vol. 11 of the MARBURGER OSTFORSCHUNGEN, edited by Hellmuth Weiss in 1960, published by Holzner-Verlag, Würzburg // This re-edition published by courtesy of Dr. Marianne Viefhaus und Ms Anne Linsel // Demanding the right of national self-determination, new national states were born in Eastern Europe after the peace agreements following the First World War. In this work Erwin Viefhaus analyses the development of the agreement on the protection of minority rights after the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Die nationale Minderheit

Author(s): Otto Junghann / Language(s): German

In the present publication the attempt has been made to convey an idea of the main aspects of the minority problem with just a few strokes. On the one hand, the fundamentals should come out as clearly as possible - on the other, the diversity of the phenomena of life that oppose the seeker for a problem solution should at least be hinted at. The attempt is made to show the place that the minority question occupies within the broader context of world events. Given the limited volume of the booklet, there can be no question of an exhaustive treatment of the question. The concrete statements about the actual situation also required extreme restrictions. The figures used in the text and in the tables in the appendix are based on the latest studies by the German Society for Nationality Law, Berlin-Steglitz, unless they are taken from the 1930 Ethno-Political Almanac published on behalf of the Berlin-Steglitz Institute for Border and Foreign Studies.

Europa denken

Author(s): Edgar Morin / Language(s): German

GERMAN EDITION PUBLISHED IN 1988 BY CAMPUS-VERLAG. From the author's prologue: For a long time I was »anti-European«. At the end of the war, as anti-fascism developed into movements promoting European federalism, I wrote an article that appeared in Les lettres francaises in 1946. It bore the categorical title: "There is no more Europe." I had belonged to the Resistance and was now a communist. For me, for us, Europe was a lying word ... I had fought against what Hitler called »the new Europe«. I considered old Europe to be the nucleus of imperialism and oppression rather than the cradle of democracy and freedom. ... Later, Europe had been divided by the Cold War and the Stalinist Ice Age. But what haunted me in the years 1948-1951 and distracted me from my split regarding Europe was the development under Stalin, which destroyed all my hopes. It expressed itself in renewed political purges and inquisition processes in Budapest, Sofia and Prague. During that time, I lived through the tragedy of those who can neither remain true to nor give up their faith. I noticed the increasingly blatant contradictions between the idea of communism and its reality.

Europäisches Schicksal

Author(s): Konrad Heiden / Language(s): German

Published in 1937 by Querido-Verlag (Amsterdam) the author offers an essay about the situation of Modern Civilization facing the results of sociographic, technical, intellectual, cultural and political development since the industrial revolution. // Konrad Heiden (born August 7, 1901 in Munich, † June 18, 1966 in New York City) was a German-American journalist and political writer who wrote Hitler's first substantial biography in 1936. // The social democratic journalist has been writing about the political scene in Munich since the early 1920s and thus became one of the earliest observers and a staunch opponent of the Nazi movement and Adolf Hitler. After Hitler came to power, Heiden fled to the USA via several stations and obtained American citizenship in the 1950s. Heiden dealt primarily with the ideology and character of National Socialism. // After his death, Heiden and his writings were quickly forgotten. Since 2007, however, his works on Hitler and National Socialism have been reprinted or re-edited in German for the first time.

Europas Führer

Author(s): Emil Ludwig / Language(s): German

This volume is comprising biographies of Fridtjof Nansen, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Aristide Briand, Walther Rathenau, Giuseppe Motta, Eleftherios Venizelos, Lloyd George, Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin. // Emil Ludwig (originally named Emil Cohn) was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Born into a Jewish family, he was raised as a non-Jew but was not baptized. “Many persons have become Jews since Hitler," he said. "I have been a Jew since the murder of Walther Rathenau [in 1922], from which date I have emphasized that I am a Jew.“ Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novellas, also working as a journalist. In 1906, he moved to Switzerland, but, during World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul. He became a Swiss citizen in 1932, later emigrating to the United States in 1940. // During the 1920s, he achieved international fame for his popular biographies which combined historical fact and fiction with psychological analysis. After his biography of Goethe was published in 1920, he wrote several similar biographies, including one about Bismarck (1922–24) and another about Jesus (1928). As Ludwig's biographies were popular outside of Germany and were widely translated, he was one of the fortunate émigrés who had an income while living in the United States. His writings were considered particularly dangerous by Goebbels, who mentioned him in his journal. (Wikipedia)

Federal Europe being the Case for European Federation together with a Draft Constitution of a United States of Europe

Author(s): Kim Ronald William Gordon Mackay / Language(s): English

First published in 1940 (London) by Michael Joseph Ltd. Publisher. // „This book has been written, as the reader will readily realise, in the all too scanty leisure of a very busy professional life. As a lawyer with some knowledge and experience of the federal systems in Australia and America I have felt for some time that I should like to make an early contribution to the discussion of this very important subject. I always think that when any proposals are to be made, whether for a business arrangement, a merger or a piece of social reform, they can be much better understood and appreciated when they are reduced to the form of a draft agreement or a draft bill. A legal document, for all the terrors it arouses, has a shape which is at once concrete, definite and specific. In the case of the federal idea, therefore, I have attempted to translate the concept of a Federal Europe into the draft Constitution of a United States of Europe, with all the detail and paraphernalia which a federal Constitution involves. Such a course has obvious disadvantages. In drafting a Constitution, one must put forward a complete scheme, naming the countries which are to join the Federation, and describing the nature of the machinery of government. No one can be certain to-day which countries will exist at the end of this war, and any scheme of Federation for Europe will be the work of many hands. However, the Constitution has been drafted, so as to be of some practical assistance to those interested in this important question.“ (author’s introduction)

Geschichte des Liberalismus in Europa

Author(s): Guido de Ruggiero / Language(s): German

The present German edition of my work follows the Italian original edition with a time shift of five years. However, I hope the book will not be out of date. I could not make up my mind to make changes in the text, not even where the presentation could appear to have been corrected by recent political experiences, for instance on the last pages of the chapter on Italy. After all, it was not my intention to write a book that was merely “topical”: not the political report of the day, but only the story itself, I believe, will be able to correct or confirm my theses after a more comprehensive and calm process. Various difficulties had to be overcome in organizing the translation. I would like to thank the publisher for the care that it has put into it.

Ist wirklich Friede?

Author(s): David Lloyd George / Language(s): German

The individual chapters of the book, which appears here in German translation, were largely published by Lloyd George as newspaper articles towards the end of 1922 and in the first half of 1923. They clearly bear the signs of their creation; In many cases its subject matter is so much history that the lively polemics with which the author treats it may appear outdated. However, the careful reader will find that this is by no means the case. The same problems with which the author is grappling, the correct solution of which he is passionately trying to present to the European public, are still to be decided today and are of particular interest today. This applies above all to the French Ruhr policy and the reparations question. The tendency of the recently published French Yellow Book is refuted here in advance. // German edition published in Leipzig, 1924 by Paul List Verlag

La Garantie Internationale en Droit des Minorités

Author(s): Athanase Moskov / Language(s): French

Published in 1936 by » Établissements Émile Bruylant, Société anonyme d’Éditions Juridiques et Scientifiques « (Brussels). // M. Moskov's work comes out at a time (1936) when the Law of Nations is going through a particularly acute phase of depression. Jurists will only be more pleased to see, at this precise moment, express with such lucidity, firmness and faith this interpretation of one of the most curious creations of contemporary international law: the guarantee of Minorities Rights elaborated in International Law. Without any doubt, it will surprise many politicians who have been directly involved, in recent years, in resolving the difficulties relating to the treatment of minorities. But is it not the highest mission of the jurist to project on the creations of social life the strong light of a penetrating analysis, to identify their distant origins, to mark their analogies, to render intelligible the functioning of the cogs of the new institution, to locate its place in the evolution of the Law? Attentive to the psychological, moral and social aspects of the new phenomenon, as well as to the conventional texts of which he gives us a penetrating analysis, M. Moskov gives these legal developments a solid basis which carries conviction. His main thesis, which the internationalists of the Contemporary School would be grateful to him for having demonstrated, is that the guarantee of the League of Nations constitutes in this case a real public function, not a faculty. The Council could not therefore avoid it without failing in its task.

Le Problème Italo-Slave

Author(s): P. P. de Sokolovitch / Language(s): French

Published by Typ. Plon-Nourrit et Cie, Paris, 1915 // Four chapters: Historical overview of Dalmatia under Venetian rule // The Colonisation of Venetian Dalmatia // The Nationality of the Inhabitants of Venetian Dalrnatia. // The State versus the Population

Men in Battle

Author(s): Andreas Latzko / Language(s): English

The story of the book Men in War, written by Andreas Latzko, is set during the First World War. Andreas Latzko uses not only his powerful writing but also his own experiences to depict various points of view on the war. Describing the storylines of the characters in this book Andreas Latzko writes about the horrors of war, the lasting effects, and the crisis of morality and ethics. Book was first published in 1918. Translated by Adele N. Seltzer

Menschen im Krieg

Author(s): Andreas Latzko / Language(s): German

The story of the book Men in War, written by Andreas Latzko, is set during the First World War. Andreas Latzko uses not only his powerful writing but also his own experiences to depict various points of view on the war. Describing the storylines of the characters in this book Andreas Latzko writes about the horrors of war, the lasting effects, and the crisis of morality and ethics. Book was first published in 1918. First Edition of 1918 by Max Rascher Verlag, Zürich. THE EDITION IS PRINTED IN GERMAN FRAKTURA - only readers being familiar with such typeface will be able to read it.

Penser l’Europe

Author(s): Edgar Morin / Language(s): French

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1987 BY GALIMARD, PARIS. From the author's plologue: For a long time I was »anti-European«. At the end of the war, as anti-fascism developed into movements promoting European federalism, I wrote an article that appeared in Les lettres francaises in 1946. It bore the categorical title: "There is no more Europe." I had belonged to the Resistance and was now a communist. For me, for us, Europe was a lying word ... I had fought against what Hitler called »the new Europe«. I considered old Europe to be the nucleus of imperialism and oppression rather than the cradle of democracy and freedom. ... Later, Europe had been divided by the Cold War and the Stalinist Ice Age. But what haunted me in the years 1948-1951 and distracted me from my split regarding Europe was the development under Stalin, which destroyed all my hopes. It expressed itself in renewed political purges and inquisition processes in Budapest, Sofia and Prague. During that time, I lived through the tragedy of those who can neither remain true to nor give up their faith. I noticed the increasingly blatant contradictions between the idea of communism and its reality.

Politische Geschichte des Modernen Europa 1814-1896

Author(s): Charles Seignobos / Language(s): German

This is the German edition (1910) of the 2-volumes English edition of 1901. // The task in hand, then, is to explain the political transformations of contemporary Europe during this period of eighty years. Being unable to deal with the whole movement of European civilization within the period, I have purposely confined myself to the political history. I have avoided all social phenomena that have had no direct effect on political life: art, science, literature, religion, private manners, and customs. I have sought chiefly to make clear the formation, composition, tactics, and policies of the parties, as being the capital facts determining the fate of institutions. But I have not thought it possible to limit political history to an account of strictly political events and institutions. Aiming above all to explain the phenomena by showing how they are connected with each other, I have reserved room for some non-political facts: local administration, the army, the church, the schools, the press, political theories, economic systems—in all cases in which they have reacted on political life. (extract from Preface)