| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 535 pages) |
| Contents |
The Versailles 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 Prussian 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 neutrals 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 |
| Summary |
Many major world events have occurred since the last key anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, and these events have had a€dramatic impact on the international stage: 9/11, the Iraq War, climate change and the world economic crisis. This is an opportune moment to bring together a group of major international experts who will offer a series of new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War. Each chapter is based on€original archival research and written by scholars who are all leading experts in their fields. This is a truly international |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
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Second World War.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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War -- Causes
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Vorgeschichte
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Weltkrieg.
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Vorgeschichte.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McDonough, Frank, 1957-
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| ISBN |
9781441185938 |
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1441185933 |
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9781441107732 |
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1441107738 |
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9781441159182 |
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1441159185 |
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