General Smuts: South Africa - South Africa

Informationen zum Autor Antony Lentin is a Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Barrister and formerly a Professor of History at the Open University, he is the author of Lloyd George and the Lost Peace (2001), The Last Political Law Lord: Lord Sumner (1859-1934) (2009) and a biography of Sir Edgar Speyer(2012). He has published widely on 18th-century Russia and edited The Odes of Horace for Wordsworth Classics (1997). Klappentext Jan Smuts was one of the most independent and influential personalities at the Paris Peace Conference. Zusammenfassung Jan Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Wilson was inspired by his ideas, including the mandates scheme. He pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of Versailles would lead to another war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Prelude: I have fought and worked for a different peace I. The Life and the Land 1. Smuts - Scholar! Statesman! Soldier: 1870-1914 2. War and Peace: 1914-18 II. The Paris Peace Conference 3. Peacemaking: November 1918-February 1919 4. The Fight for Revision (i): March-April 1919 5. The Fight for Revision (ii): May 1919 6. 'Wilson Peace' or 'Scrap of Paper'? 29 May-2 June 1919 7. 'The Last Battle of the War': June 1919 III. The Legacy 8. 'A Carthaginian Peace'? 1919-39 9. Smuts and the Second World War: 1939-45 10. 'Superhuman Courage': Smuts 1945-50 Conclusion Notes Chronology Further Reading Picture Sources Index ...

Product details

• Authors: A. Lentin, Antony Lentin, Lentin Antony
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2010
• EAN: 9781905791828
• ISBN: 978-1-905791-82-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Makers of the Modern World; Makers of the Modern World: Th; Makers of the Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Republic of South Africa, African History