Author: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and HistoryPublisher:
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The Paris Peace Conference
Author: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and HistoryPublisher:
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The Paris Peace Conference: History and Documents
Author: The Paris Peace Conference: History and Documents. General Editor: James Brown Scott, Etc
Author: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (WASHINGTON, D.C.). Division of Economics and HistoryPublisher:
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Paris 1919
Author: Margaret MacMillanPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307432963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
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)
Hungary at the Paris Peace Conference
Author: Francis DeákPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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The Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) and Its Aftermath
Author: Sorin ArhirePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527543951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This volume offers a number of perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and its fallout, providing new insights into this crucial point in twentieth-century history from the perspectives of the Great Powers and the small countries struggling for independence, looking at the winners, the losers and the neutral parties. Each chapter offers a detailed examination of a case dating from 1919–1920, or from the aftermath of the Conference. It will be of interest to historians and students of international relations and political science, as well as anyone who wishes to gain a broader perspective on this crucial moment in twentieth-century history.
Reparation at the Paris Peace Conference ... Abridged Edition Without Documents, Etc
Author: Philip Mason BURNETTPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 209
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The Treaty of Versailles
Author: Manfred F. BoemekePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521621328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This text scrutinizes the motives, actions, and constraints that informed decision making by the various politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the Treaty of Versailles.
A History of the Peace Conference of Paris, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Harold William Vazeille TemperleyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364378748
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Excerpt from A History of the Peace Conference of Paris, Vol. 6 Endeavours have been made, so far as possible, to make use of the work of American as well as of British participants in the Peace Conference, and, whenever possible, use has also been made of the works of writers of other nationalities such as Nitti and Tardieu. It is probable however, and indeed inevitable, that the work displays a certain bias in favour of British and, to'a less extent, of American policies. But the reader, being warned of the tendencies of the compass, should be able to steer his course aright. In the documents given and in the quotations made from the German and other enemy documents there should be enough material wherewith to check and to criticize any tendencies of this kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Anglo-American Relations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Author: Seth P. TillmanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400876729
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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The year 1919 marks a high point in the world power and prestige of Western democracy. World War I was ended, and the victory belonged to the democratic states. Theirs was the sober task-and the unique opportunity-of formulating a settlement that would guarantee impartial justice and preserve the peace. Dr. Tillman examines here the documentary account of Anglo-American diplomatic relations during this critical period. He shows the interaction of personalities in both governments, the patterns of cooperation and conflict as they negotiated major issues of war and of peace, and the political repercussions in both England and America that led either to compromise or to defeat of some of the best purposes of the Versailles Treaty. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.