Failed Imagination?

New World Orders of the Twentieth Century

Andrew Williams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

1998
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-4787-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This work places the debate about new world orders within the historical process and major turning points of the 20th century. Coverage is both historical and thematic, covering reconstruction, security "architectures", self-determination, human rights and globalization.

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Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, Duke of Lerma (1553-1625) is the last major unknown statesman in modern European history. Patrick Williams brings him dramatically to life and challenges the assumptions that historians have made about him and about Spanish history at a time of profound crisis, inviting a re-evaluation of the phenomenon of government by favourites in this seminal period of European history.

Lerma served Philip III as his favourite and first minister between 1598 and 1618. His power dazzled contemporaries; one petitioner telling Philip that he had come to see him ‘because I could not get an appointment with the Duke of Lerma’. Within a decade of assuming office Lerma had raised his family from humiliating poverty to great riches and was the greatest patron of the arts in Europe. His use of power provoked intense debate about the nature of corruption in government. Yet Lerma remained deeply ambivalent about his position. Determined to follow family tradition and retire into religious life to secure the salvation of his soul, he secured a cardinalate in 1617, ending his life as a prince of the Church. -- .

Inhalt

Introduction: Why study New World Orders for?. The imagining of Versailles NWO, 1914-1918; the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, 1919; The United States and the planning of an American NWO, 1939-44; the "First Follower" and Roosevelt's NWO - Britain 1940-43; joint Allied proposals for a NWO - relationships and issues, 1941-45; international organization and the NWO, 1914-1994; the economic elements of the NWO project; self-determination and the NWO; "Failed imagination"? has the NWO idea worked?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.1998
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• ISBN-10: 0-7190-4787-0 / 0719047870
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-4787-9 / 9780719047879
• Zustand: Neuware