Wilson and His Peacemakers
Author : Arthur Walworth
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 1986-08-01
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ISBN : 9780393336337
Author : Arthur Walworth
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 1986-08-01
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ISBN : 9780393336337
Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307432963
A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize • Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the larger-than-life characters who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. David Lloyd George, the gregarious and wily British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals, and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China, and dismissed the Arabs. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War. Praise for Paris 1919 “It’s easy to get into a war, but ending it is a more arduous matter. It was never more so than in 1919, at the Paris Conference. . . . This is an enthralling book: detailed, fair, unfailingly lively. Professor MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” —Allan Massie, The Daily Telegraph (London)
Author : Ray Stannard Baker
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Paris Peace Conference
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Author : Stráner Katalin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Paris Peace Conference
ISBN :
Author : Woodrow Wilson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2017-06-17
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ISBN : 9781548159412
This Squid Ink Classic includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for scholarly secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your research paper.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Paris Peace Conference
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Author : Ray Stannard Baker
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Paris Peace Conference
ISBN :
Author : Erez Manela
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195176154
This book tells the neglected story of non-Western peoples at the time of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing how Woodrow Wilson's rhetoric of self-determination helped ignite the upheavals that erupted in the spring of 1919 in four disparate non-Western societies--Egypt, India, China and Korea.
Author : Thomas Andrew Bailey
Publisher : New York The Macmillan Company 1944.
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Paris Peace Conference
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Author : Norman Gordon Levin
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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