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William Hughes: Australia

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Carl Bridge

The First World War marked the emergence of the Dominions on the world stage as independent nations, none more so than Australia...

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Meritocracy: A Love Story


by Jeffrey Lewis

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Consequences of Peace: The Versailles Settlement - Aftermath and Legacy

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Alan Sharp

This final volume in the Paris Peace Conference series will evaluate the immediate and later effects of the last great peace gathering which sought to settle the world’s affairs at a stroke. Ninety years on, the settlement still casts a long shadow.

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South East Asia

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Andrew Dalby

Although the one national delegation from the region (Siam) took a minor part, nationalist movements in several Southeast Asian countries reached an early climax – significant though inconclusive – in the years 1919-1920. The planned Peace Conference, Wilson’s Fourteen Points, and the victory of Communism in Russia, all contributed to this activity, and in spite of national differences it needs to be seen as a whole.

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Afonso Costa: Portugal

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses

To be published in October 2010, on the 100th anniversary of republic, this biography of Afonso Costa described by loyal press as 'the leader of the small nations', considers the political implications of Portugal’s participation in the First World War and of the ‘defeat’ in Paris.

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