Munich Crisis, Politics and the People

Julie V. Gottlieb is Professor of Modern History at the University of SheffieldDaniel Hucker is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nottingham Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter

• IntroductionJulie V. Gottlieb, Daniel Hucker and Richard Toye1 Czechoslovakia, Czecho-Slovakia and the Munich AgreementMary Heimann2 A very long shadow: The Munich Agreement in post-war Czechoslovak communist propaganda, ideology and historiography, 1948-1989Jakub Drábik3 ‘Curs Yapping Round the Dying Stag’, or the rituals of fractured societies: Hungary and Poland in the vortex of the Munich Crisis of 1938Miklos Lojko4 ‘What, No Chair for Me?’ Russia’s conspicuous absence from the Munich ConferenceGabriel Gorodetsky5 Churchill, Munich, and the origins of the Grand AllianceRichard Toye6 Munich and the unexpected rise of American powerAndrew Preston7 Mussolini, Munich, and the Italian peopleChristian Goeschel8 ‘England is pro-Hitler’: German popular opinion during the Czechoslovakian Crisis, 1938Karina Urbach9 Munich and the masses: emotional inflammation, mental health and shame in Britain during the September crisisJulie V. Gottlieb10 Melanie Klein and the coming of World War Two: a clinical archive, 1938Michal Shapira11 The poet’s perspective on the Munich Crisis: ‘news that STAYS news’?Helen Goethals12 Public opinion, policymakers, and the Munich Crisis: adding emotion to international historyDaniel Hucker13 France in the ‘blue light’ of Munich: popular agency, activity, and the reframing of historyJessica WardhaughBibliographyIndex

'This collection comes strongly recommended not just to those with a particular interest in the Munich Crisis and the Appeasement process of the 1930s but also to those more widely engaged with the history of popular opinion in a mass media age, the history of emotions, and comparative international history.'Journal of British Studies, Volume 62, Issue 2 (April 2023)