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Mental maps in the era of two world wars / edited by Steven Casey and Jonathan Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political leadership--Psychological aspects.
- Political leadership.
- Heads of state--Psychology.
- Heads of state.
- World politics--1900-1945.
- World politics.
- World War, 1914-1918--Biography.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- How did leaders as diverse as Lenin and Lloyd George, Hitler and Churchill, Mussolini and Roosevelt, Chiang Kaishek and Mao Zedong view the world? When they looked at maps, what areas stood out? Were they more interested in political borders, economic resources, race or class? And how far did they want to transform what they saw?
- In this path-breaking book, thirteen leading historians address these questions. They look at the underlying political, cultural and social environments in which various leaders developed their world views and rose to influence. They explore the extent to which these leaders' beliefs influenced their actions once in power. And they reassess some of the key questions of the period, from the familiar distinction between status quo, revisionist and revolutionary figures to the deeper clashes between liberal internationalism and its challengers, especially Marxism on the left and Hitler's brutal form of imperialism on the right.
- Contents:
- 1 Raymond Poincare / John Keiger 1
- 2 David Lloyd George: 'An Infernally Clever Chap...' / Sally Marks 21
- 3 The View from the Kremlin: Soviet Assumptions about the Capitalist World in the 1920s and 1930s / Christopher Read 38
- 4 One Mind at Locarno? Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann / Jonathan Wright, Julian Wright 58
- 5 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk / Clive Foss 77
- 6 Maps, Minds, and Visions: Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and China's Place in the World / Rana Mitter 99
- 7 Hamaguchi Osachi (1870-1931) / Eri Hotta 116
- 8 Edvard Benes / Richard Crampton 135
- 9 Mussolini: Il Duce / Alan Cassels 157
- 10 Hitler / Neil Gregor 177
- 11 The Maps on Churchill's Mind / Geoffrey Best 203
- 12 Franklin D. Roosevelt / Steven Casey 216.
- ISBN:
- 9780230007161
- 0230007163
- OCLC:
- 156831788
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