History

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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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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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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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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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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