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Makers of the Modern World

 

Woodrow Wilson: United States
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath

Woodrow Wilson: United States

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

It is September 1919 – a meeting hall in a small mid-Western city. A thin man is speaking to a sceptical audience about peace. He has already met the city fathers and has been warned that ‘out here’ what happens in Europe means very little...

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  2009-12-10
  9781905791620
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  History, Makers of the Modern World

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Ignacy Paderewski: Poland
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath

Ignacy Paderewski: Poland

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

The thirteenth of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points of 1918 read: ‘An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations,...

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  2009-12-07
  9781905791705
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  History, Makers of the Modern World

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Aleksandŭr Stamboliĭski: Bulgaria
Makers of the Modern World Series

Aleksandŭr Stamboliĭski: Bulgaria

Makers of the Modern World Series
by RJ Crampton

Aleksandŭr Stamboliĭski was one of the most original politicians of the 20th century. His tragedy was that he came to power at the end of the First World War in which Bulgaria had been defeated.

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  2009-11-27
  9781905791774
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  History, Makers of the Modern World

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Georges Clemenceau: France
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath

Georges Clemenceau: France

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by David Robin Watson

The Anglo-Saxon view of Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) is based on John Maynard Keynes’s misjudged caricature, that he had imposed a treaty that was harsh and oppressive of Germany. French critics’ view, however, is that he had been too lenient, and left Germany in a position to challenge the treaty...

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  2009-11-24
  9781905791606
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  History, Makers of the Modern World

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Karl Renner: Austria
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath

Karl Renner: Austria

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

The Socialist politician Karl Renner (1870–1950) was head of the government that took power in Vienna after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lead the delegation to Paris, which had to face the difficult issue of reparations and war guilt, for which the Allies held the successor states to the Empire responsible. Fortunately, Renner was a likeable man and a realist, and the Austrian delegation became quite popular in Paris.

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  2009-09-10
  9781905791897
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  History, Makers of the Modern World

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