The Energy of Empire 19. A Carthaginian Peace? The Treaty of Versailles

The term Carthaginian Peace comes from Rome’s sacking of the city of Carthage, where they supposedly poured salt onto the land to ensure the North African city could never rise again. It was applied to the peace settlement with the German’s by economist John Maynard Keynes. In spite of popular adherence, it is a view that many prominent historians consider to be a myth. 

 

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Notes

Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-And-A-Half Years, by Jim MacGregor and Gerry Docherty: https://tinyurl.com/b7d9dzfr

 

Interview with Gerry Docherty by James Corbett: 

https://www.corbettreport.com/gerry-docherty-on-the-hidden-history-of-wwi/

 

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, by Margaret MacMillan: https://tinyurl.com/yck9rf3v

 

A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis, by Jürgen Tampke: https://tinyurl.com/cepdmefr

 

Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or Barbarism, by Rob Sewell: https://tinyurl.com/yc5ryf98

 

Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal, by Ralph Raico: https://tinyurl.com/5bdn9xfv

 

The Politics of Hunger The Allied Blockade of Germany, 1915–1919, by C. Paul Vincent:

https://tinyurl.com/22v3f36t

 

Omnipotent Government The Rise of the Total State and Total War, by Ludwig von Mises:

https://store.mises.org/Omnipotent-Government-The-Rise-of-Total-State-and-Total-War-P53.aspx

 

The Pity of War, by Niall Ferguson,

https://tinyurl.com/f2375m7f