Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-28307-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, J.

Casey, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.