The twilight of French eastern alliances, 1926-1936 : French-Czechoslovak-Polish relations from Locarno to the remilitarization of the Rhineland / Piotr S. Wandycz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wandycz, Piotr S. (Piotr Stefan), author.

Contributor:

Wandycz, Piotr Stefan.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Foreign relations--1914-1940.

France.

France--Foreign relations--Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovakia--Foreign relations--France.

Czechoslovakia.

France--Foreign relations--Poland.

Poland--Foreign relations--France.

Poland.

Europe--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (556 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Although France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia were in jeopardy from a recovery of German power after World War I and from a potential German hegemony in Europe, France failed in her efforts to maintain a system of alliances with her two imperiled neighbors. Focusing on the period from 1926 to 1936, Piotr Wandycz seeks to explain how and why these three nations, with so much at risk, neglected to act in concert. Wandycz is the author of a well-known study on the series of alliances constructed by France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia in the years following the Treaty of Versailles. In this current volume he picks up the story after the Locarno Pact (1925) and follows the progressive disintegration of the alliance system until the time of Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland.Through an examination of the political, military, and economic relations among France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, the author provides valuable insights into an era that contained the seeds of the future war and the collapse of the historic European system. By relying on French, Polish, and more selectively Czechoslovak and Western archives, and thanks to his intimate knowledge of Central and East European published sources, he has filled a large gap in the history of prewar diplomacy. He shows how the divergent aims of Czechoslovakia and Poland combined with a decline of French willpower to prevent a real cohesion among the partners.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Background: The French System

Part One. Post-Locarno Diplomacy

Chapter One. The Shadow of Locarno

Chapter Two. The Turbulent Year 1926

Chapter Three. Eastern or Central European Locarno

Chapter Four. Toward the Evacuation of the Rhineland

Chapter Five. The End of an Era

Part Two. The Depression

Chapter Six. Revisionism and Briand's European Union

Chapter Seven. Austro-German Union and Financial Diplomacy

Chapter Eight. French Initiatives and Failures

Part Three. Responses to Hitler

Chapter Nine. A Dilemma: The Four Power Pact

Chapter Ten. At Crossroads, The German Polish Declaration of Nonaggression

Chapter Eleven. Louis Barthou and His Diplomacy

Chapter Twelve. Fronts or ¥aqades}

Chapter Thirteen. The Test of 7 March

Appraisal: A Pattern of Relations

Appendix I

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"Sequel to ... France and her eastern allies, 1919-1925"--Pref.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 491-521.

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Related Work:

Wandycz, Piotr Stefan. France and her eastern allies, 1919-1925.

ISBN:

1-4008-5981-6

OCLC:

884013150