Series:CEEOL COLLECTION related to EUROPE / EU (Hist. / Pol. /Econ. ...)

The issue of Minorities and the Development of Minority Protection Agreements at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919

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

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

Keywords: right of self-determination; Nation State; national minorities; American diplomacy in WW I; Hay-Note of 1902; Paris Peace Conference 1919; Woodrow WIlson; Jewish Bill of Rights; Comité des Délégations Juives; Coolidge-Mission; Beneš

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.

The Problem of Nationalities. A political Study on the Poland-Question and the Future of Austria-Hungary

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

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

Keywords: German-Polish relations; Habsburg Empire; K&K-Monarchy;

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.

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

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)

The Italian-Slavic Probleme

Le Problème Italo-Slave

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

Keywords: Dalmatia; Venetian Dalmatia; Italian-Slovenian conflict;

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