This is a powerful and insightful account with suggestions of what white society, especially men, can learn from women and darker skinned people. This book focuses on solutions which should be acted upon in order to achieve, in some way, Dr. Martin Luther King's dream of a just society. Find out what some white men really think about people of African descent ? Asians ?Latin Americans ? and women. 'A timely challenging read which is a further wake-up call for the need for greater social justice in the UK.The author's scholarly approach and eye for detail have resulted in an accessible book...

The Versailles Settlement, at the time of its creation a vital part of the Paris Peace Conference, suffers today from a poor reputation: despite its lofty aim to settle the world's affairs at a stroke, it is widely considered to have paved the way for a second major global conflict within a generation. Woodrow Wilson's controversial principle of self-determination amplified political complexities in the Balkans, and the war and its settlement bear significant responsibility for boundaries and related conflicts in today's Middle East. After almost a century, the settlement still casts a long...

This book, fully revised and updated with new material for the centenary of the Paris Paris Conferences at Versailles in 1919 sets the consequences of the Peace Treaties into their longer term context and argues that the responsibility for Europe's continuing interwar instability cannot be wholly attributed to the peacemakers of 1919-23.