Reparation at the Paris Peace Conference
@article{Trachtenberg1979ReparationAT,
title={Reparation at the Paris Peace Conference},
author={Marc Trachtenberg},
journal={The Journal of Modern History},
year={1979},
volume={51},
pages={24 - 55}
}In his article "Ten Years of Peace Conference History," which appeared in this journal in 1929, Robert Binkley attacked as simplistic those accounts which depicted the conference as a struggle between "heroes and villains." Binkley was convinced, however, that with time the moralistic tinge would fade from the historiography of the peace settlement and a more sophisticated understanding of the period would take shape. Over half a century has now passed since the Treaty of Versailles was signed… Expand
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