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French foreign and defence policy, 1918-1940 : the decline and fall of a great power / edited by Robert Boyce.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Modern European History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Munich Four-Power Agreement (1938).
- Munich Four-Power Agreement.
- International relations--History--20th century.
- International relations.
- France--Foreign relations--1914-1940.
- France.
- France--History, Military--20th century.
- France--Economic policy--1918-1945.
- Maginot Line (France).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940 outlines France's strategies for protection and appeasement during this period and places interwar relations in a larger European context. This book examines: * relationships with key countries such as Italy and Russia * the significance of interwar France to 20th Century European integration * the historical context of the policies * the setbacks and defeats of the period and how they should be evaluated
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 France at the Paris Peace Conference; 2 France and the politics of steel, from the Treaty of Versailles to the International Steel Entente, 1919-1926; 3 Raymond Poincaré and the Ruhr crisis; 4 Economics and Franco-Belgian relations in the inter-war period; 5 Reparations and war debts; 6 Business as usual; 7 René Massigli and Germany, 1919-1938; 8 Franco-Italian relations in flux, 1918-1940; 9 In defence of the Maginot Line; 10 A douce and dextrous persuasion
- 11 Daladier, Bonnet and the decision-making process during the Munich crisis, 193812 Intelligence and the end of appeasement; 13 France and the phoney war, 1939-1940; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-74826-4
- 1-134-74827-2
- 1-280-14050-X
- 0-203-97922-2
- 9780203979228
- OCLC:
- 475942731
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