Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars
Editors: Casey, S., Wright, J. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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This book explores the 'mental maps' of leading political figures of the era of two world wars. Chapters focus on those giants whose ideas cast a compelling shadow: Lloyd George, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Briand and Stresemann, as well as other important figures: Poincaré, Atatuerk, Beneš, Chiang and Mao.
- About the authors
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STEVEN CASEY is Senior Lecturer in International History at the LSE, UK. He is author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany and Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and the Press in the US, 1950-1953.
JONATHAN WRIGHT is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, UK, and a Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Christ Church. His recent publications include Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman and Germany and the Origins of the Second World War. - Reviews
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'This fine collection of essays on the 'mental maps' of key statesmen during the inter-war period makes an important
contribution to this new approach ... a stimulating and extremely useful set of essays.'
- Peter Jackson, English Historical Review
'A stimulating and highly coherent set of essays illuminating the intellectual formation and world views of leading policy-makers. Specialists and students alike will profit greatly from reading it.' - Patrick Finney, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK.
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars
- Editors
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- S. Casey
- J. Wright
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-22760-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230227606
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-00716-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-28307-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 248
- Topics