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Franklin Roosevelt's Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission / by J. Rofe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rofe, J. Simon.
- Series:
- The World of the Roosevelts, 2634-5285
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History, Modern.
- International relations.
- America--History.
- America.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Political science.
- US History.
- Modern History.
- International Relations.
- History of the Americas.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Political Science.
- Local Subjects:
- US History.
- Modern History.
- International Relations.
- History of the Americas.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Political Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the president's foreign policy and of the nature of the Anglo-American relationship of the time.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Mission of Sumner Welles to Europe (February-March 1940), Rooseveltian Foreign Policy, and Anglo-American Relations, November 1937-May 1940; 1 Rooseveltian Foreign Policy Making and Anglo-American Relations in 1938 and 1939-Relationships in the Making; 2 War and Peace-Rooseveltian Foreign Policy and the ""Phony War"": ""Like Spectators at a Football Match""; 3 ""Wishing Welles"": The Immediate Origins of the Welles Mission, January and February 1940
- 4 Hope, Despair, Friends-Welles in Rome, Berlin, and Paris, 17 February-12 March 19405 ""The Grass Snake"" Arrives: Welles in London, 10 March-13 March 1940; 6 Increasingly Forlorn: Welles Heads Home via Rome; 7 The Welles Mission: A Short-Term Legacy to the Anglo-American Relationship and Rooseveltian Foreign Policy; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611362836
- 9781281362834
- 1281362832
- 9780230604896
- 0230604897
- OCLC:
- 314798290
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