Peaceless Europe

Thirty million dead have left Europe divided from its own past by a “great cold barrier.” Francesco Saverio Nitti asks whether anyone can still remember the continent before 1914.

Writing in the unsettled years after the First World War, Nitti looks back at a Europe that had seemed prosperous and secure—and finds a continent living from hand to mouth, uneasy and close to decline. The former Italian minister weighs the wreckage of war against the punitive peace imposed on the defeated, warning that victory has not spared the victors from ruin. He traces Europe’s peril to rulers and systems that let power gather in too few hands, and asks what kind of settlement can keep nations from turning on one another again. If the peace has only deepened the old wounds, what could make Europe whole?

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