Keith Hitchins is Professor of History at the University of Illinois and specializes in Southeastern Europe, Romania, Transylvania, the Kurds, Central Asia, and nationalism. Among his more recent books are Rumania, 1866-1947, in the Oxford History of Modern Europe series (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) and The Romanians, 1774-1866 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. He holds honorary degrees from the universities of ... Read moreCluj, Sibiu, Alba Iulia, Targu Mures, and Timisoara in Romania. Professor Alan Sharp was Provost of the Coleraine Campus at the University of Ulster. He joined the History Department at Ulster in 1971 and has been successively Professor of International Studies, a post in which he helped to set up degrees in International Studies and, later, International Politics and Head of the School of History and International Affairs. His major publications include The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking in Paris, 1919 (1991) amongst others. Show Less