Project Gutenberg 2025-07-19 Public domain in the USA. 162 Ferrero, Guglielmo 1871 1942 24016926 La tragedia della pace : $b Da Versailles alla Ruhr $aMilano :$bAthena, $c1923. Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library) "La tragedia della pace : Da Versailles alla Ruhr" by Guglielmo Ferrero is a collection of political essays and historical analysis written in the early 20th century. The work probes the European settlement after the First World War, arguing that the collapse of old monarchies left a vacuum of legitimacy filled by raw force, punitive passions, and contradictory aims. It scrutinizes Versailles through themes such as reparations, disarmament, shifting borders, and the stillborn promise of the League of Nations, contrasting Wilson’s idealism with Clemenceau’s power politics. The book’s likely focus is how a peace made without clear principles risks perpetuating conflict from France to the Ruhr. The opening of this work sets out Ferrero’s thesis: the war ended in the ruin of Europe’s monarchical order, but the victors, driven by ressentiment and the “chimera of unlimited power,” failed to replace it with sound principles, leaving force to rule where authority had died. In “Le baionette e l’idea” he calls the war “millions of bayonets seeking an idea,” warning that 1848’s promises reappear in distorted form and that peace will be chaos unless institutions and limits are rebuilt. He critiques Clemenceau’s reliance on armaments and alliances over true international guarantees, doubting any lasting quadruplice and urging that the pen must substitute for the sword. Reporting from Paris, he notes the obsession with reparations, the babel of clashing aims, and the peril of disarming and humiliating Germany while inventing buffer states and borders that lack consent. He labels Europe’s statecraft a “new infancy,” contrasts Vienna’s sober legitimacy with Napoleonic improvisation, chides Europeans for expecting endless American “miracles,” and closes this opening stretch by flagging the paradox of the great absentees—Russia and Germany—whose shadow dominates the peace. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20230104045024ferrero 1923 IT Reading ease score: 39.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. it Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence D501 Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: History - European Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Politics 430387 2025-09-30T08:07:01.021544 text/html 403691 2025-07-19T12:49:03 text/html 460582 2025-09-30T08:07:08.478483 application/epub+zip 458054 2025-09-30T08:07:02.684506 application/epub+zip 296700 2025-09-30T08:07:01.782525 application/epub+zip 792147 2025-09-30T08:07:12.796456 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 744990 2025-09-30T08:07:07.693461 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385110 2025-09-30T08:07:00.301528 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 365214 2025-07-19T12:49:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17704 2025-09-30T08:07:12.937431 application/rdf+xml 12971 2025-09-30T08:07:02.069466 image/jpeg 2192 2025-09-30T08:07:01.923493 image/jpeg 863786 2025-09-30T08:07:01.065474 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog it.wikipedia en.wikipedia