Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780230007161
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction; S.Casey& J. Wright Raymond Poincaré; J.Keiger Lloyd George; S.Marks The View from the Kremlin: Soviet Assumptions about the Capitalist World in the 1920s and 1930s; C.Read One mind at Locarno? Gustav Stresemann and Aristide Briand; J.Wright& J.Wright Atatuerk; C.Foss Chiang Kaishek and Mao Zedong; R.Mitter Hamaguchi Osachi; E.Hotta Edvard Beneš; R.Crampton Mussolini, Il Duce; A.Cassels Hitler; N.Gregor The maps on Churchill's mind; G.Best Franklin D. Roosevelt; S.Casey