Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War - Couverture souple

MacMillan, Margaret

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719562333 ISBN 13 : 9780719562334

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

Book by MacMillan Margaret

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 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, 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Margaret MacMillan has a doctorate from St Antony's College, Oxford. Formerly Provost of Trinity College and Professor of History, University of Toronto, she is now Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford. She has written several books including PEACEMAKERS which won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0719562333
• ISBN 13: 9780719562334
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 538