PORTABLE PROFESSOR™ is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.
Between January and July 1919 delegates from all over the world converged on Paris to forge a lasting peace in the wake of World War I. Margaret MacMillan vividly portrays the historical events surrounding the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which laid the groundwork for an even more devastating conflict-World War II-by demanding punishing reparations from the defeated nation of Germany.
Margaret MacMillan received her Ph.D. from Oxford University and was the first woman ever to win the BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction. She is also the granddaughter of former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, one of the signers of the Treaty of Versailles.
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LOLDavid, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: LOLDavid
from Los Angeles, California
This Portable Professor course broadened my mind about what the Paris Peace Conference that was held after World War I was really all about. The subtitle “The Treaty of Versailles and the Road to World War II” is really a misnomer because Professor MacMillan shows throughout the course that the Paris Peace Conference involved so much more in terms of world affairs than the Treaty of Versailles and she continually questions the frequent assumption that peace terms given to Germany were the cause of the World War II. I’d recommend downloading the course guide and looking at the maps after you listen to the lectures to get a sense of the geography that the Allied powers were carving up and forming into new nations.
In this course you learn the roots of many national and ethnic tensions that are still with us today, in particular involving the Middle East. Most westerners don’t recall that the nation of Iraq was formed at the Paris Peace Conference combining three conflicting ethnic groups in the region, but the people of Iraq sure remember. Also the potential Communist revolutions are prevalent throughout the course that would lead to many more wars. You’ll learn about the ideas and agendas of the leaders of three major Allied powers, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau.
Margaret MacMillan is a very articulate lecturer and she wrote a book called “Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World” so she knows the topic in depth. It’s an excellent course.
- Published:
2004
- Number Of Lectures:
14
- Lecture Time:
32 Mins.
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
S003498
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