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Date Posted: 00:22:20 09/29/04 Wed
Author: Richard Jones-Nerzic
Subject: Avoid condescension

EP Thompson famously agued that historians should take care to ‘avoid the enormous condescension of posterity’; we should make judgements on the actions of people of the past on their terms rather than ours.

If we extend this philosophy to the peacemakers of 1919 then we can argue that they did a remarkably good job. Three European empires had collapsed, economies were devastated, millions of people were homeless or victims of disease and nationalist and communist revolutions were breaking out all over Europe. The peacemakers had to act quickly to save their world and in this they were remarkably successful.

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