We have known for many decades that the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 "failed", in the sense that it did not prevent the outbreak of World War II. This book investigates not whether the Paris Peace Conference succeeded or failed, but the ...
'Of all branches of human endeavour, diplomacy is the most protean.' That is how Harold Nicolson begins this book. It is an apt opening.
This history of Paris in 1919 explores the global implications of French political activism at the end of World War I.
Mr MacDonald, however, determined to invite Dr Gooch, the well-known historian, to undertake the proposed publication on behalf of the Foreign Office.25 For Austen Chamberlain, who had become Foreign Secretary on 7 November 1924, ...
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Stephen Schloesser's Jazz Age Catholicism shows how a postwar generation of Catholics refashioned traditional notions of sacramentalism in modern language and imagery.
Tamagne examines the currents of nostalgia and yearning, euphoria, rebellion, and exploration in the post-war era, and the b"
In this fascinating portrait, Margaret MacMillan examines the hidden lives of the women who supported their husbands’ conquests–and in turn supported the Raj, often behind the scenes and out of the history books.
On allied views, see Alfred D. Low, The Anschluss Movement (1918–1919) and the Paris Peace Conference (Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 1974), 229–332. * “Reply of the Allied Powers to the Austrian Note on the League of ...
This volume traces the complex story of the Asian response to the Conference, an event that acted as an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations.