Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvS. Casey,J. Wright,Jonathan Wright,Steven Casey

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This book explores the 'mental maps' of leading political figures of the era of two world wars. Chapters focus on those giants whose ideas cast a compelling shadow: Lloyd George, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Briand and Stresemann, as well as other important figures: Poincaré, Atatuerk, Beneš, Chiang and Mao.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-07-11
Mått140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
Upplaga2008
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230007161

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STEVEN CASEY is Senior Lecturer in International History at the LSE, UK. He is author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany and Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and the Press in the US, 1950-1953.JONATHAN WRIGHT is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, UK, and a Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Christ Church. His recent publications include Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman and Germany and the Origins of the Second World War.

Introduction; S.Casey& J. Wright Raymond Poincaré; J.Keiger Lloyd George; S.Marks The View from the Kremlin: Soviet Assumptions about the Capitalist World in the 1920s and 1930s; C.Read One mind at Locarno? Gustav Stresemann and Aristide Briand; J.Wright& J.Wright Atatuerk; C.Foss Chiang Kaishek and Mao Zedong; R.Mitter Hamaguchi Osachi; E.Hotta Edvard Beneš; R.Crampton Mussolini, Il Duce; A.Cassels Hitler; N.Gregor The maps on Churchill's mind; G.Best Franklin D. Roosevelt; S.Casey

'This fine collection of essays on the 'mental maps' of key statesmen during the inter-war period makes an important contribution to this new approach ... a stimulating and extremely useful set of essays.' - Peter Jackson, English Historical Review 'A stimulating and highly coherent set of essays illuminating the intellectual formation and world views of leading policy-makers. Specialists and students alike will profit greatly from reading it.' - Patrick Finney, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK.