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Paris 1919 : (Record no. 100148)

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
Canceled/invalid LC control number 2002023707
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0375760520 :
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780375760525
SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)53016173
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Original cataloging agency SIN
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number D644
Item number .M32 2003
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 940.3/141
Edition number 22
AUTHOR NAME
AUTHOR NAME MacMillan, Margaret,
UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Peacemakers.
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Paris 1919 :
Remainder of title six months that changed the world /
Statement of responsibility, etc Margaret MacMillan.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Random House trade paperback ed.
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Random House,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2003, c2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxxi, 570 p., [16] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
GENERAL NOTE
General note Originally published: Peacemakers. London : J. Murray, 2001.
BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
SUMMARY, ETC.
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.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element World War, 1914-1918
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type 01. English Non Fiction
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
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