
Portrait of a Decision
The Council of Four and the Treaty of Versailles
Howard Elcock(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2025
Book
Hardback
398 pages
978-1-041-01783-7 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1972, Portrait of a Decision drawing on materials like- Cabinet minutes, the Lloyd George and Lothian papers, Foreign Office correspondence- provides the first comprehensive reassessment of the negotiations in Paris since those who were present wrote their memoirs. The making of the Treaty of Versailles was a watershed between the diplomatic worlds of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An enormously wide-ranging piece of diplomatic negotiation, it largely determined the shape of the modern international world.
This book makes an attempt to portray the personalities and attitudes of the four principal actors in the drama: Woodrow Wilson, George Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Vittorio Orlando. It was to be their decisions on such crucial questions as war guilt and reparations, military occupation, the redrawing of national boundaries and the application of the 'Fourteen Points', and the setting up of the League of Nations, which set the scene for the turbulence of the next two decades. This historical reference work is a must read for scholars and researchers of international relations, history, European history, modern history and diplomacy and strategic studies.
This book makes an attempt to portray the personalities and attitudes of the four principal actors in the drama: Woodrow Wilson, George Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Vittorio Orlando. It was to be their decisions on such crucial questions as war guilt and reparations, military occupation, the redrawing of national boundaries and the application of the 'Fourteen Points', and the setting up of the League of Nations, which set the scene for the turbulence of the next two decades. This historical reference work is a must read for scholars and researchers of international relations, history, European history, modern history and diplomacy and strategic studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
910 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-01783-7 (9781041017837)
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Person
Howard Elcock enjoyed a long and distinguished academic career. He taught at the university of hull between 1966 and 1981 and then Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) where he became professor emeritus in 1997.
Content
Acknowledgements Preface 1. Prelude, 1915- 1918 2. The Armistice: September- November 1918 3. Preparations for the Conference: Uncertainties and Disagreements, November- December 1918 4. The Conference Opens: First Problems, January 1919 5. Detailed Work: February 1919 6. The Guilt of Germany: Reparations, Disarmament and War Guilt, February 1919 7. The Tensions Increase: March 1919 8. Fontainebleau and After: Territorial Questions, March- April 1919 9. War Guilt, Reparations and Other Issues, March April 1919 10. Italy's Month: April 1919 11. The Peace Congress: May 1919 12. The Last Crisis: June 1919 13. Portrait of a Decision Bibliographical References Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography Index