- Hardcover: 954 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press (24 Mar 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198221142
- ISBN-13: 978-0198221142
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 5.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,005,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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...indisputably the most detailed and authoritative single-volume account of European international history in the fifteen years following the end of the Frist World War...[this work] affirms Zara Steiner's status as the pre-eminent historian of inter-war international affairs. (Martin Conway, EHR 494 )
Zara Steiner has produced a splendid volume, chock full of detail and with many thought-provoking insights. It will remain a classic for many years to come. For those studying international business history it will serve as an excellent background reference manual to the period... If one were to ask for more it would be the second volume in the same vein. (Derek H. Aldcroft, Business History )
Zara Steiner's work has ensured that we will have to treat that neglected decade [the 1920s] with proper respect. She has told the story with impeccable scholarship, clarity and compassion ... Her book will rightly become the definitive work on the period. (Margaret MacMillan, TLS )
... impressive (David Stevenson, LRB )
...majestic and authoritative volume...The Lights that Failed skillfully and judiciously deploys the fruits of extensive reading and long reflection ... Embedded in its comprehensive survey of the main protagonists and themes is a radical and fascinating argument... (Mark Mazower, BBC History )
Any reader who wants to understand the inter-War period should consult this book and any serious student of the period should buy it. For there is simply nothing to compare with it in terms of erudition or exposition. Above all Zara Steiner ensures that we read history forward not backward. (The Independent )
a dazzling account...This combination of human drama and a broad international perspective, shifting between western, eastern and Atlantic viewpoints, is a governing strength of the narrative, at once providing fascinating detail, balance, and vivid variety of pace and content. Steiner's long, wise view of international relations during the last epoch when western Europe confidently believed itself the centre of the world is compelling reading for anyone concerned with the continent's past - or future. (FT Magazine )
...this is quite clearly a standard of work which is unique in the research landscape and will continue to hold this position for years to come. (Eckart Conze, German Historical Institute Bulletin, Vol. XXIX, No. 1 )
Zara Steiner has produced a splendid volume, chock full of detail and with many thought-provoking insights. It will remain a classic for many years to come. For those studying international business history it will serve as an excellent background reference manual to the period... If one were to ask for more it would be the second volume in the same vein. (Derek H. Aldcroft, Business History )
Zara Steiner's work has ensured that we will have to treat that neglected decade [the 1920s] with proper respect. She has told the story with impeccable scholarship, clarity and compassion ... Her book will rightly become the definitive work on the period. (Margaret MacMillan, TLS )
... impressive (David Stevenson, LRB )
...majestic and authoritative volume...The Lights that Failed skillfully and judiciously deploys the fruits of extensive reading and long reflection ... Embedded in its comprehensive survey of the main protagonists and themes is a radical and fascinating argument... (Mark Mazower, BBC History )
Any reader who wants to understand the inter-War period should consult this book and any serious student of the period should buy it. For there is simply nothing to compare with it in terms of erudition or exposition. Above all Zara Steiner ensures that we read history forward not backward. (The Independent )
a dazzling account...This combination of human drama and a broad international perspective, shifting between western, eastern and Atlantic viewpoints, is a governing strength of the narrative, at once providing fascinating detail, balance, and vivid variety of pace and content. Steiner's long, wise view of international relations during the last epoch when western Europe confidently believed itself the centre of the world is compelling reading for anyone concerned with the continent's past - or future. (FT Magazine )
...this is quite clearly a standard of work which is unique in the research landscape and will continue to hold this position for years to come. (Eckart Conze, German Historical Institute Bulletin, Vol. XXIX, No. 1 )
Literary Review, Friday, 1 July 2005
...magisterial international history...
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If you are looking at diplomacy, international history or International Relations, this is an excellent history of the "Twenty Years' Crisis" and so on. It reads like a novel in parts and is just as difficult to put down as War & Peace once you get carried by the tide of humanity that has gone into this story.
Whilst it is is true that this is first and foremost a history of ruling-class diplomacy, it is nevertheless a very good one, and other factors are not ignored, the Bolsheviks, the Turks and the insurgencies in Europe.
Detailed narrative and cogent analysis of the all that happened in Paris in 1919 and all that came out of it, with the aftermath of the peace process and the difficulty of avoiding war for twenty years. Excellent!
Whilst it is is true that this is first and foremost a history of ruling-class diplomacy, it is nevertheless a very good one, and other factors are not ignored, the Bolsheviks, the Turks and the insurgencies in Europe.
Detailed narrative and cogent analysis of the all that happened in Paris in 1919 and all that came out of it, with the aftermath of the peace process and the difficulty of avoiding war for twenty years. Excellent!
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