Makers of the Modern World

Makers of the Modern World

The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Various

MAKERS OF THE MODERN WORLD: THE PEACE CONFERENCES OF 1919-23 AND THEIR AFTERMATH is a groundbreaking new series containing 32 titles, being published by Haus from NOVEMBER 2008-2010. Get a 30% discount when you subscribe to the series! Please note that not all books are available yet and that after the subscription payment has been made books will be dispatched when they are published. The entire series will be published by November 2010. For further details please contact info@hauspublishing.com

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Price: £291.00

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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Price: £10.40

Piip, Meierovics & Voldemaras: The Baltic States


by Charlotte Alston

Conflict on the borders of the Russian ‘Empire’, whatever the complexion of the government controlling it, has been a constant feature of the past 90 years, most recently with Russia’s brief war with Georgia in August 2008...

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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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Price: £10.40