The World Since 1919
Author: Walter Consuelo Langsam
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 776
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surveys world developments from the Paris Peace Conference to the Six Day War in the Middle East.
Author: Walter Consuelo Langsam
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 776
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surveys world developments from the Paris Peace Conference to the Six Day War in the Middle East.
Author: Walter Consuelo LANGSAM
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 743
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret MacMillan
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0307432963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize • Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the larger-than-life characters who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. David Lloyd George, the gregarious and wily British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals, and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China, and dismissed the Arabs. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War. Praise for Paris 1919 “It’s easy to get into a war, but ending it is a more arduous matter. It was never more so than in 1919, at the Paris Conference. . . . This is an enthralling book: detailed, fair, unfailingly lively. Professor MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” —Allan Massie, The Daily Telegraph (London)
Author: Walter Consuelo Langsam
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 824
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Walter Consuelo Langsam
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 797
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2019-11-07
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1547605766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become known as the Red Summer. The suffrage movement had a long-fought win when women gained the right to vote. Laborers took to the streets to protest working conditions; nationalistic fervor led to a communism scare; and temperance gained such traction that prohibition went into effect. Each of these movements reached a tipping point that year. Now, one hundred years later, these same social issues are more relevant than ever. Sandler traces the momentum and setbacks of these movements through this last century, showing that progress isn't always a straight line and offering a unique lens through which we can understand history and the change many still seek.
Author: Walter Consuelo Langsam
Publisher:
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 797
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Walter Consuelo LANGSAM
Publisher:
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 797
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