The Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Peace Without Victory?

by Michael Dockrill and John Fisher

• ISBN13: 9780333776308
• ISBN10: 0333776305
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-10-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The essays in this volume, written by leading historians and a former British foreign secretary, survey the strategy, politics and personalities of British peacemaking in 1919. Many of the intractable problems faced by negotiators are studied in this volume. Neglected issues, including nascent British commercial interests in Central Europe and attitudes towards Russia are covered, along with important reassessments of the viability of the Versailles treaty, reparations, appeasement, and the long-term effects of the settlement. This collection is a compelling and resonant addition to revisionist studies of the "Peace to End Peace" and essential reading for those interested in international history.

Author Biography

Michael Dockrill is Professor of Diplomatic History at King's College, London.

John Fisher is Reader Adviser at the Public Record Office, Kew.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Rt Hon. Lord Hurd
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
Michael Dockrill
John Fisher
The Rise and Fall of Morality in Peace Making	7	(6)
Lord Hurd
The Treaty of Versailles Revisited	13	(22)
Zara Steiner
Holding up the Flag of Britain...with Sustained Vigour and Brilliance or `Sowing the seeds of European Disaster? Lloyd George and Balfour at the Paris Peace Conference	35	(16)
Alan Sharp
`Appeasement' at the Paris Peace Conference	51	(16)
Antony Lentin
`That elusive entity British policy in Russia': the Impact of Russia on British Policy at the Paris Peace Conference	67	(36)
Keith Neilson
The Treaty of Versailles, `Never Again' and Appeasement	103	(12)
Keith Robbins
Missions impossible: General Smuts, Sir George Clerk and British Diplomacy in Central Europe in 1919	115	(26)
Miklos Lojko
The Eastern Question: the Last Phase	141	(16)
Erick Goldstein
New Diplomacy and Old: a Reassessment of British Conceptions of a League of Nations, 1918--20	157	(18)
Ruth Henig
Before Gooch and Temperley: the Contributions of Austen Chamberlain and J. W. Headlam-Morley towards `instructing the mass of the public', 1912--26	175	(16)
Keith Wilson
Index	191