General Smuts: South Africa - Couverture rigide

Lentin, Antony

 
9781905791828: General Smuts: South Africa
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1905791828 ISBN 13 : 9781905791828
Editeur : Haus Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Jan Christian Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Woodrow Wilson was inspired by his ideas on the League and borrowed heavily from them. Alarmed at the turn that peacemaking was taking, Smuts took the lead in urging moderation on reparations and Germany s frontiers with Poland and pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of Versailles would lead to another war. Declaring I return to South Africa a defeated man , Smuts encouraged Keynes to write The Economic Consequences of the Peace, and denounced the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923. He became Prime Minister of South Africa and a leading Commonwealth statesman. He made important contributions to the British cause in the Seond World War.

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À propos de l'auteur

Professor Antony Lentin is Visiting Professor and Tutor in Law at the Open University, where he was previously Professor of History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a barrister. He is the author of Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: from Versailles to Hitler, 1919 1940 (2001) and wrote the Historical Association booklet The Versailles Peace Settlement (1991, 1993, second, revised edition, 2003).

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Éditeur
Haus Publishing
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1905791828
ISBN 13 
9781905791828
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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