 | Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
By Margaret Macmillan, Richard Holbrooke (Foreword), Casey Hampton (Designer)
ISBN: 9780375760525
EAN: 8601400316276
ASIN: B00A2M69I8
Published: 2003
Number of Pages: 624
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback |
Pricing & Availability:Additional Details:
Product Type: Book
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Description: National BestsellerNew York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeSilver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign RelationsFinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardFor six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end all wars,” the Big Three—President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau—met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmark work of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful days, which saw new political entities—Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them—born out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn. |
Library of Congress Control Number
- LC control Number:
2002023707 - Canceled/invalid LC control number:
2002023707International Standard Book Number:
0375508260:
0375508260 (cloth):
0375760520 (pbk.):
0375760520 : - Terms of availability:
$16.95 ($25.95 Can.)Level of Bibliographic Control and Coding Detail:
A5845Geographic Area Code:
e-fr---:
e-gx---Library of Congress Call Number
- Classification number:
D 644 - Classification number:
D644 - Item number:
.M32 2002 - Item number:
.M32 2003Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- Edition number:
21 - Edition number:
22 - Classification number:
940.3/141Main Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Macmillan, Margaret Olwen. - Personal name:
MacMillan, Margaret, - Dates associated with a name:
1943-Uniform Title:
PeacemakersTitle Statement
- Title:
Paris 1919 : - Remainder of title:
six months that changed the world / - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Margaret MacMillan ; foreword by Richard Holbrooke. - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Margaret MacMillan.Edition Statement:
Random House trade paperback ed.Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
- Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
New York : - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Random House Trade Paperbacks, - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Random House, - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
2002. - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
2003, c2001. - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
2003. - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
c2002.Physical Description
- Extent:
xxxi, 570 p. : - Extent:
xxxi, 570 p., [16] p. of plates : - Other physical details:
ill., maps ; - Other physical details:
maps. ; - Dimensions:
24 cm. - Dimensions:
25 cm.General Note:
Originally published: Peacemakers. London : J. Murray, 2001.Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-512) and index.Summary, etc.:
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 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 idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the characters who fill the pages of this book. David Lloyd George, the 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.Local Notes:
6Subject Added Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Wilson, Woodrow, - Dates associated with a name:
1856-1924.Subject Added Entry - Meeting Name
- Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element:
Paris Peace Conference - Date of meeting:
(1919-1920)Subject Added Entry - Uniform Title
- Uniform title:
Treaty of Versailles - Date of treaty signing:
(1919)Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
- Topical term or geographic name entry element:
World War, 1914-1918 - General subdivision:
Peace.Subject Added Entry - Geographic Name
- Geographic name:
Germany - General subdivision:
Boundaries. - General subdivision:
History - Chronological subdivision:
1918-1933.
