Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars

ISBN-13: 9780230007161 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 248 str.

Jonathan Wright; Steven Casey

Opis

This book explores the 'mental maps' ofleading political figuresof the era of two world wars. Chapters focus on those giants whoseideas cast a compelling shadow: Lloyd George, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Briand and Stresemann, as well as other important figures: Poincare, Atatuerk, Bene, Chiang and Mao."

Recenzje

'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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.