出版社: Random House Trade Paperbacks
副标题: Six Months That Changed the World
出版年: 2003
页数: 624
定价: USD 20.00
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780375760525
内容简介 · · · · · ·
From Publishers Weekly
A joke circulating in Paris early in 1919 held that the peacemaking Council of Four, representing Britain, France, the U.S. and Italy, was busy preparing a "just and lasting war." Six months of parleying concluded on June 28 with Germany's coerced agreement to a treaty no Allied statesman had fully read, according to MacMillan, a history professor at the ...
From Publishers Weekly
A joke circulating in Paris early in 1919 held that the peacemaking Council of Four, representing Britain, France, the U.S. and Italy, was busy preparing a "just and lasting war." Six months of parleying concluded on June 28 with Germany's coerced agreement to a treaty no Allied statesman had fully read, according to MacMillan, a history professor at the University of Toronto, in this vivid account. Although President Wilson had insisted on a League of Nations, even his own Senate would vote the league down and refuse the treaty. As a rush to make expedient settlements replaced initial negotiating inertia, appeals by many nationalities for Wilsonian self-determination would be overwhelmed by rhetoric justifying national avarice. The Italians, who hadn't won a battle, and the French, who'd been saved from catastrophe, were the greediest, says MacMillan; the Japanese plucked Pacific islands that had been German and a colony in China known for German beer. The austere and unlikable Wilson got nothing; returning home, he suffered a debilitating stroke. The council's other members horse-traded for spoils, as did Greece, Poland and the new Yugoslavia. There was, Wilson declared, "disgust with the old order of things," but in most decisions the old order in fact prevailed, and corrosive problems, like Bolshevism, were shelved. Hitler would blame Versailles for more ills than it created, but the signatories often could not enforce their writ. MacMillan's lucid prose brings her participants to colorful and quotable life, and the grand sweep of her narrative encompasses all the continents the peacemakers vainly carved up. 16 pages of photos, maps.
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From Library Journal
In an ambitious narrative, MacMillan (history, University of Toronto) seeks to recover the original intent, constraints, and goals of the diplomats who sat down to hammer out a peace treaty in the aftermath of the Great War. In particular, she focuses on the "Big Three" Wilson (United States), Lloyd George (Great Britain), and Clemenceau (France) who dominated the critical first six months of the Paris Peace Conference. Viewing events through such a narrow lens can reduce diplomacy to the parochial concerns of individuals. But instead of falling into this trap, MacMillan uses the Big Three as a starting point for analyzing the agendas of the multitude of individuals who came to Versailles to achieve their largely nationalist aspirations. Following her analysis of the forces at work in Europe, MacMillan takes the reader on a tour de force of the postwar battlefields of Asia and the Middle East. Of particular interest is her sympathy for those who tried to make the postwar world more peaceful. Although their lofty ambitions fell prey to the passions of nationalism, this should not detract from their efforts. This book will help rehabilitate the peacemakers of 1919 and is recommended for all libraries. Frederic Krome, Jacob Rader Marcus Ctr. of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Margaret Olwen MacMillan, OC (born 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously, at Ryerson University. A leading expert on history and international relations, MacMillan is a fr...
Margaret Olwen MacMillan, OC (born 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously, at Ryerson University. A leading expert on history and international relations, MacMillan is a frequent commentator in the media.
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对中东而言,1919年是个不幸的年份。被拖入一战的奥斯曼帝国土崩瓦解,巴黎和会上,中东的前途变得更加迷茫。玛格丽特·麦克米伦在《缔造和平》中,为我们展开了一幅大国外交下小国无奈选择的图卷。 深邃多思的作者仅凭三言两语,便将一个个历史人物从历史记忆的深处拉出,让我... (展开)巴黎和会秘史或者巴黎和会的一千个轶事汇编
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一刻薄而悲悯 这是一本非常好的书。它好就好在那股扑面而来的刻薄劲儿。这本书的副标题完全可以改做“巴黎和会秘史”或“巴黎和会的一千个轶事汇编”,作者通过大量的回忆、细节、轶事、报刊摘录填满了全书的每一个空隙,把众多与会者的群生相描绘地活灵活现。作者扒开了巨头们... (展开)> 更多书评 29篇
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3 有用 小左 2014-09-07 16:42:06
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1 有用 胡串 2010-03-08 02:47:22
英国给这个世界带来的苦难要多于贡献,虽然对每件事的孤立解释都是那么振振有词。 美国是中国的朋友。
0 有用 WaaaaaaKaaaaaa 2013-03-29 13:40:57
好看,但是写得像美剧。
1 有用 風颭雲 2019-12-31 11:29:44
在擱置了幾年之後終於讀完了!MacMillan對巴黎合會那段歷史的敘述非常客觀細緻。沒有個人的感情色彩能讓讀者自己去領悟歷史的教訓。在我看來,凡爾賽合約是注定不能避免二戰的爆發。雖然英美法意意圖盡力調停,但是沒有完全脫離殖民主義和利己主義的思維。這導致以歐洲為中心重新構架世界格局引發更多的民族主義情緒。經過兩次代價慘重的世界大戰之後,人類理應能夠從中得到教訓。然而縱觀今天的世界,一個世紀前導致世界... 在擱置了幾年之後終於讀完了!MacMillan對巴黎合會那段歷史的敘述非常客觀細緻。沒有個人的感情色彩能讓讀者自己去領悟歷史的教訓。在我看來,凡爾賽合約是注定不能避免二戰的爆發。雖然英美法意意圖盡力調停,但是沒有完全脫離殖民主義和利己主義的思維。這導致以歐洲為中心重新構架世界格局引發更多的民族主義情緒。經過兩次代價慘重的世界大戰之後,人類理應能夠從中得到教訓。然而縱觀今天的世界,一個世紀前導致世界之戰的眾多因素有死灰復燃之勢。 (展开)
0 有用 遥遥 2020-04-05 08:23:24
应该还是相当客观的评判。既没有回避英法对于奥斯曼帝国的瓜分带有帝国主义殖民倾向,也没有将引起二战的罪责完全加在巴黎和约头上。描写了未来巴尔干地区和中东的民族主义之间的经久不息的战争的起点。对于美国,似乎威尔逊的十四点和平原则既理想主义,又无能为力。
0 有用 以心 2020-07-09 10:53:10
刚刚吃学术瓜(massey college撕逼macmillan递辞呈)的时候突然想起来读过这本哈哈哈
0 有用 Pascano 2020-07-05 11:50:25
全景呈现巴黎和会,各种勾心斗角尔虞我诈暗箱操作,精彩
0 有用 十块钱的可乐 2020-05-17 08:48:17
书的前主人的笔记非常详细 奈何我对一战的历史知识是几乎没有 啃这一点点已经非常吃力了 印象深刻的是“Paris was sad and beautiful as the peacemakers began to assemble from all parts of the world in January 1919.”
0 有用 遥遥 2020-04-05 08:23:24
应该还是相当客观的评判。既没有回避英法对于奥斯曼帝国的瓜分带有帝国主义殖民倾向,也没有将引起二战的罪责完全加在巴黎和约头上。描写了未来巴尔干地区和中东的民族主义之间的经久不息的战争的起点。对于美国,似乎威尔逊的十四点和平原则既理想主义,又无能为力。
1 有用 風颭雲 2019-12-31 11:29:44
在擱置了幾年之後終於讀完了!MacMillan對巴黎合會那段歷史的敘述非常客觀細緻。沒有個人的感情色彩能讓讀者自己去領悟歷史的教訓。在我看來,凡爾賽合約是注定不能避免二戰的爆發。雖然英美法意意圖盡力調停,但是沒有完全脫離殖民主義和利己主義的思維。這導致以歐洲為中心重新構架世界格局引發更多的民族主義情緒。經過兩次代價慘重的世界大戰之後,人類理應能夠從中得到教訓。然而縱觀今天的世界,一個世紀前導致世界... 在擱置了幾年之後終於讀完了!MacMillan對巴黎合會那段歷史的敘述非常客觀細緻。沒有個人的感情色彩能讓讀者自己去領悟歷史的教訓。在我看來,凡爾賽合約是注定不能避免二戰的爆發。雖然英美法意意圖盡力調停,但是沒有完全脫離殖民主義和利己主義的思維。這導致以歐洲為中心重新構架世界格局引發更多的民族主義情緒。經過兩次代價慘重的世界大戰之後,人類理應能夠從中得到教訓。然而縱觀今天的世界,一個世紀前導致世界之戰的眾多因素有死灰復燃之勢。 (展开)