Peacemakers by Margaret Macmillan

Peacemakers by Margaret Macmillan

After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau - but thousands of others came too, each with a different agenda. Kings, prime ministers and foreign ministers with their crowds of advisers rubbed shoulders with journalists and lobbyists for a hundred causes, from Armenian independence to women's rights. Everyone had business that year - T.E. Lawrence, Queen Marie of Romania, Maynard Keynes, Ho Chi Minh. There had never been anything like it before, and there never has been since.;For six extraordinary months the city was effectively the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound 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, struggled with the problems of Kosovo, or the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, it has been said, failed dismally, and above all failed to prevent another war.Margaret MacMillan argues that they have been made scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. They tried to be evenhanded, but their goals could never in fact be achieved by diplomacy.

'A terrific piece of writing ! full of wonderful insights and portraits of the statesmen and women of the day' (listed among 'My Six Best Books' byChris Patten) -- Chris Patten, Daily Express

Margaret Macmillan has a doctorate from St Antony's College, Oxford, and is a professor of history at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her previous books include Women of the Raj and Canada and NATO.

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ISBN 13	9780719559396
ISBN 10	0719559391
Title	Peacemakers
Author	Margaret Macmillan
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Murray Press
Year published	2001-09-06
Number of pages	592
Prizes	Winner of Duff Cooper Memorial Prize 2002, Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002, Winner of Duff Cooper Prize 2002
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