Paris 1919 - Margaret Macmillan [0]
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Praise
NOTE ON PLACE-NAMES
Foreword
Introduction
PART ON - GETTING READY FOR PEACE
1 - Woodrow Wilson Comes to Europe
2 - First Impressions
3 - Paris
4 - Lloyd George and the British Empire Delegation
PART TWO - A NEW WORLD ORDER
5 - We Are the League of the People
6 - Russia
7 - The League of Nations
8 - Mandates
PART THREE - THE BALKANS AGAIN
9 - Yugoslavia
10 - Rumania
11 - Bulgaria
12 - Midwinter Break
PART FOUR - THE GERMAN ISSUE
13 - Punishment and Prevention
14 - Keeping Germany Down
15 - Footing the Bill
16 - Deadlock Over the German Terms
PART FIVE - BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
17 - Poland Reborn
18 - Czechs and Slovaks
19 - Austria
20 - Hungary
PART SIX - A TROUBLED SPRING
21 - The Council of Four
22 - Italy Leaves
23 - Japan and Racial Equality
24 - A Dagger Pointed at the Heart of China
PART SEVEN - SETTING THE MIDDLE EAST ALIGHT
25 - The Greatest Greek Statesman Since Pericles
26 - The End of the Ottomans
27 - Arab Independence
28 - Palestine
29 - Atatürk and the Breaking of Sèvres
PART EIGHT - FINISHING UP
30 - The Hall of Mirrors
APPENDIX - Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Notes
About the Author
Conclusion
Bibliography
Copyright Page
Praise for PARIS 1919
“The history of the 1919 Paris peace talks following World War I is a blueprint of the political and social upheavals bedeviling the planet now. . . . A wealth of colorful detail and a concentration on the strange characters many of these statesmen were keep [Margaret MacMillan’s] narrative lively.” —The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Engrossing . . . Beautifully written, full of judgment and wisdom, Paris 1919 is a pleasure to read and vibrates with the passions of the early twentieth century and of ours.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“So frequently do current events, particularly in the Balkans but also in the Middle East, take us back to the Paris Peace Conference that MacMillan’s book often reads like the commentary on the daily newspaper. . . . [MacMillan] captures the spirit of the enterprise brilliantly. . . . Her book has already won many prizes, and it deserves them all.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Fine and memorable . . . a revelation into the history of such trouble spots as the Balkans, the Middle East, and, especially, Iraq . . . MacMillan is a superb writer who can bring history to life.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“[A] rich stew of a book . . . MacMillan spices her account with vivid anecdotes and brightly drawn character sketches.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Excellent . . . This is a sprawling work of narrative political history, filled with both diplomatic detail and vivid portraits of statesmen from across the world who converged on Paris in those dreary early months of 1919. . . . By combining impeccable research with lively prose and an eye for telling detail, MacMillan brings the diplomatic wranglings to life.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“For anyone interested in knowing how historic mistakes can morph into later historic problems, this brilliant book is a must-read.”
—Fort Worth Star Telegram
“[A] consistently compelling work . . . Paris 1919 is an amazingly detailed and wonderfully personal look at one of the most important peace conferences in modern history.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“This is an enthralling book: detailed, fair, unfailingly lively.”
—The Daily Telegraph (London)
“MacMillan’s scrupulously researched, very fluidly written and closely argued book forces us to reexamine our assumptions about the supposed myopia of Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson as they imposed their settlement on the defeated Central Powers and their allies.” — The Sunday Telegraph (London)
MARGARET MACMILLAN received her Ph.D. from Oxford University and is provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto. Her previous books include Women of the Raj, a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the