Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 837-872) and index.
Table of Contents
The new world order -- The hinge : Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson -- From university to equilibrium : Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt -- The concert of Europe : Great Britain, Austria, and Russia -- Two revolutionaries : Napoleon III and Bismarck -- Realpolitik turns on itself -- A political doomsday machine : European diplomacy before the First World War -- Into the vortex : the military doomsday machine -- The new face of diplomacy : Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles -- The dilemmas of the victors -- Stresemann and the re-emergence of the vanquished -- The end of illusion : Hitler and the destruction of Versailles -- Stalin's bazaar -- The Nazi-Soviet pact -- America re-enters the arena : Franklin Delano Roosevelt --