Makers of the Modern World

General Smuts: South Africa

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

Professor Lentin, author of General Smuts in the Makers of the Modern World Series, debates with Jim Naughty and David Watson, author of the volume on Clemenceau, on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning. He suggests that if the South African statesman had been listened to, World War Two could have been avoided.

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The League of Nations

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

Many of the peacemakers who came to Paris in 1918-19 had thought deeply about establishing an international body of stature and authority to prevent war from breaking out again in the future. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multi-faceted body which emerged, and how it was used in ensuing years to counter territorial ambitions and restrict armaments, as well as its role in human rights and refugee issues.

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Paul Hymans: Belgium

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

It was Hymans, above all, who struggled to give the small states at the Conference a voice, making himself deeply disliked in the process. He was was rewarded by becoming the League’s first president.

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The Hashemites: The Dream of Arabia

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

The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to the legend of Lawrence of Arabia as portrayed in David Lean’s 1962 film. But behind this romantic image lies a harsher reality of wartime expediency, double-dealing and dynastic ambition, which shaped the modern Middle East and laid the foundations of many of the conflicts that rack the region to this day.

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Chaim Weizmann: The Zionist Dream

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

The Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the most defining features of recent world history, flaring up into open warfare yet again in Gaza at the end of 2008 and provoking large-scale demonstrations in the streets of cities across the world.

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