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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Frank McDonough |
| ISBN: | 9781441164438 144116443X 9781441185938 1441185933 |
| OCLC Number: | 535494685 |
| Description: | xii, 535 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | The Versailles settlement : the start of the road to the Second World War? / Alan Sharp -- The League of Nations : an idea before its time? / Ruth Henig -- An ideological genealogy of imperial era Japanese militarism / M.G. Sheftall -- Italian foreign policy and the road to war 1918-39 : ambitions and delusions of the least of the great powers / R.J.B. Bosworth -- The failure of detente? : German-French relations between Stresemann and Hitler, 1929-32 / Conan Fischer -- Hitler, German foreign policy and the road to war : a German perspective / Lars Ludicke -- Germany's twisted road to war, 1919-39 / Jurgen Forster -- The Prussian tradition, the myth of the blitzkrieg and the illusion of German military dominance, 1939-41 / Robert M. Citino -- Guilty men? : three British foreign secretaries of the 1930s / David Dutton -- Neville Chamberlain and the consequences of the Churchillian hegemony / John Charmley -- When instinct clouds judgement : Neville Chamberlain and the pursuit of appeasement with Nazi Germany, 1937-9 / Frank McDonough -- Missed opportunities? : intelligence and the British road to war / Kevin Quinlan and Calder Walton -- Appeasement : a critical evaluation seventy years on / Jeffrey Record -- A very English Channel : Britain and French appeasement / Robert J. Young -- Politics, strategy and economics : a comparative analysis of British and French 'Appeasement' / Talbot Imlay -- Neutrality 'de jour' : Switzerland and the Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935-6 / Neville Wylie and Marco Wyss -- The European neutrals and the Second World War / Efraim Karsh -- The international dimensions of the Spanish Civil War / Enrique Moradiellos -- The Middle East and the coming of war / T.G. Fraser -- The 'Jewish Question' and its impact on international affairs, 1914-39 / Mark Levene -- The Sudeten Crisis of 1938 : Benes and Munich / Milan Hauner -- Poland and the origins of the Second World War / Piotr S. Wandycz -- Poland, the 'Danzig Question' and the outbreak of the Second World War / Anita J. Prazmowska -- Stalin and the outbreak of the Second World War / Geoffrey Roberts -- American isolationism and the coming of the Second World War / Manfred Jonas -- A pivotal power : the United States and the international system of the inter-war period / Patrick O. Cohrs -- Japanese foreign policy and the outbreak of the Asia-Pacific War : the search of a modus vivendi in US-Japanese relations after July 1941 / Haruo Iguchi -- Economics and the origins of the Second World War / Richard J. Overy -- Historians at war / Anthony Adamthwaite. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Frank McDonough. |
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Here is modern history-writing at its very best. Frank McDonough has brought together no fewer than 30 other leading scholars to examine that most vital of historical moments - the outbreak of the Second World War - from every conceivable international aspect. Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist and always highly readable; this sets the mark for all collaborative history from now on -- Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War This is the perfect companion for the scholar and student of the origins of the Second World War. Accessible and extraordinarily comprehensive, it raises a raft of new scholarly questions, while its breadth and the standing of its contributors will without doubt make it a standard work -- Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, University of Sydney, Australia. An international history of the origins of the Second World War at its best...Internationalizing the study of history, obviously an important objective, is easier said than carried out, but this volume shows that the ideal can become a reality when a leading scholar brings together a number of scholars from various countries who share his vision and cooperate with him in producing an insightful new volume -- Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Harvard University, US Frank McDonough has managed a tour de force with this splendid collection on the origins of the Second World War. The gathering together in one volume of twenty-eight distinguished historians from half a dozen countries is itself a remarkable achievement. The exhaustively researched, lucid essays addressing the long-term causes of the war from a wide variety of perspectives represent a model of what international history should be. The book is the most comprehensive treatment of this complicated historical topic and will be of interest not only to scholarly specialists but to the reading public as well -- William R. Keylor, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University, US Professor Frank McDonough has edited an important book of essays by no fewer than 30 distinguished historians... which sheds fresh light on that fascinating and febrile period. -- The Sunday Telegraph: One of the historian Andrew Roberts' selections for his 'books of the year' 'This collection of 29 short essays will be useful to any reader interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original research into a general discussion of a topic.'-Choice Magazine 'This collection of 29 short essays will be useful to any reader interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original research into a general discussion of a topic.'-Choice Magazine 'This collection of 29 short essays will be useful to any reader interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original research into a general discussion of a topic.'-Choice Magazine Read more...
