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Author Clark, John Denis Havey, 1985- author.

Title Passion and restraint : Poles and Poland in western diplomacy, 1914-1921 / Denis Clark.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents An "Internal" Russian Problem, 1914-15 -- Sympathy for Suffering -- Commitments and Plans, 1918 -- The Polish Territorial Settlement at Paris, 1919 -- Stabilizing Poland's Domestic Affairs, 1919 -- Hoping for Compromise, 1919-21.
Summary "Much of today's international order can be traced to the experimentations with governance that occurred in central Europe immediately after World War I. And though western governments did not bring about the creation of Poland on their own or determine all of its eventual borders, their attempts to do so left many lingering grudges and made the years immediately following the First World War a crucial period in Polish and international history. Passion and Restraint examines how British, French, and American foreign policymakers interacted with Poles and the idea of an independent Poland during this period. Western policymakers knew little about Poland at the start of the war in 1914, but by war's end were drawing the new country's borders, sending humanitarian aid, and imposing minority protections. Attitudes regarding national character and emotional restraint were central, intertwined themes in British, French, and American diplomacy during this period of Polish rebirth, and policymakers' opinions of this national character evolved based on personal experiences, political conditions, and dominant understandings of the Polish people in the early twentieth century. Amid these changing attitudes, policymakers' emphasis on the necessity for Polish emotional restraint was a constant theme. Demonstrating how emotions and stereotypes were integral to diplomatic decision-making, Passion and Restraint brings attention to these often-overlooked historical factors, advancing a new lens for the study of Polish, European, and international history."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Polish question.
Polish people -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century.
Poland -- Foreign relations -- 1918-1945.
HISTORY / Europe / Poland.
Diplomatic relations
Polish people
Polish question
Central Europe
Poland https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRgyP3qcDKmj68x7FVbM
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Indexed Term 1919.
American relations.
Anglo.
Danzig.
David Lloyd George.
Eastern Europe.
First.
Franco-Polish relations.
Front.
Galicia.
Gdansk.
Georges Clemenceau.
Ignacy Paderewski.
Jozef Pilsudski.
Lewis Namier.
Paris Peace Conference.
Polish Corridor.
Polonia.
Poznan.
Roman Dmowski.
Russian.
Upper Silesia.
WWI.
Woodrow Wilson.
World War One.
diplomatic history.
discrimination.
emotional communities.
emotionology.
emotions.
gender.
global governance.
history.
humanitarianism.
international.
intervention.
liminal orientalism.
minorities.
national character.
nationalism.
niepodleglosc.
political discourse.
prejudice.
stereotypes.
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Clark, John Denis Havey, 1985- Passion and restraint. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228011884 9780228011880 (OCoLC)1277277238
ISBN 0228012627
9780228012634 ePUB
0228012635 electronic book
9780228012627 electronic book