Paris Peace Conference, 1919

ERIC GOLDSTEIN Professor of International Relations, Boston UniversityRUTH HENIG Senior Lecturer, Lancaster UniversityTHE RT HON LORD HURD OF WESTWALL Retired Foreign Secretary, (1989-1995)ANTONY LENTIN Professor, Department of History, Open UniversityMIKLOS LOJKO Assistant Lecturer of Twentieth Century British History, University of BudapestKEITH NEILSON Professor of History, Royal Military College of CanadaKEITH ROBBINS Vice-Chancellor, University of Wales, LampeterALAN SHARP Head of the School of History, Philosophy and Politics, New University of Ulster, ColeraineZARA STEINER Emeritus Fellow, New Hall, CambridgeKEITH WILSON Reader, International History, University of Leeds

• Notes on the Contributors Preface: The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwall Acknowledgements Introduction: M.Dockrill & J.Fisher The Rise and Fall of Morality in Peacemaking; Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwall The Hall of Mirrors: What Was Done and Not Done at Versailles; Z.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; A.Sharp 'Appeasement' at the Paris Peace Conference; A.Lentin 'That Elusive Entity British Policy in Russia': The Impact of Russia on British Policy at the Paris Peace Conference; K.Neilson The Treaty of Versailles: 'Never Again' and Appeasement; K.Robbins Missions Impossible: General Smuts, Sir George Clerk and British Diplomacy in Central Europe in 1919; M.Lojko The Eastern Question: The Last Phase; E.Goldstein New Diplomacy and Old: A Reassessment of British Conceptions of a League of Nations, 1918-20; R.Henig Before Gooch and Temperley: The Contributions of Austen Chamberlain and J.W. Headlam-Morley Towards 'instructing the mass of the public', 1912-1926; K.Wilson Index

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