Origins of the Second World War : an international perspective / edited by Frank McDonough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDonough, Frank, 1957-

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Causes.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xii, 535 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum International Publishing Group, [2011]

Summary:

Major international experts offer new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War. >

Contents:

The Versilles 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 Prussion 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 neutals 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781441164438

144116443X

1441185933

9781441185938

OCLC:

535494685

Publisher Number:

99945109237