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Peacemakers. The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War

Door Margaret MacMillan

Categorie
WO I
Boeknummer
#401988-UB24
Titel
Peacemakers. The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
Auteur
MacMillan, Margaret
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : John Murray
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
0719559391
ISBN13
9780719559396
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original red boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
After "the war to end all wars", men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau - but thousands of others came too, each with a different agenda. Kings, prime ministers and foreign ministers with their crowds of advisers rubbed shoulders with journalists and lobbyists for a hundred causes, from Armenian independence to women's rights. Everyone had business that year - T. E. Lawrence, Queen Marie of Romania, Maynard Keynes, Ho Chi Minh. There had never been anything like it before, and there never has been since.;For six extraordinary months the city was effectively the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new cou... (Lees verder)ntries. 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, struggled with the problems of Kosovo, or the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, it has been said, failed dismally, and above all failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have been made scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. They tried to be evenhanded, but their goals could never in fact be achieved by diplomacy.
Pagina's
574
Conditie
Goed — Spine slightly skew.
Prijs
€ 20,00

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