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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
'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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars
Editors: Steven Casey, Jonathan Wright
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227606
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00716-1Published: 11 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28307-1Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-22760-6Published: 11 July 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 248
Topics: European History, Modern History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Sociology, general, World History, Global and Transnational History, International Relations