Origins of the Second World War
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Origins of the Second World War
（Manchester studies in modern history / general editor, Jeremy Black）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001
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The origins of the Second World War
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Includes bibliographical guide (p. 197-206) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780719059575
Description
Victor Rothwell examines the origins of the Second Word War, from the flawed peace settlement of 1919 to the start of the true world war at Pearl Harbor in 1941. Reflecting current historical understanding of the subject, the author discusses, within a chronological framework, the underlying issues, such as the clash between "have" and "have not" states, as well as their relative military and economic strengths. Did the cause of peace advance in the 1920s, only to be stopped in its tracks and threatened with reversal by the economic depression that began with the Wall Street crash in 1929? What was the nature of Nazi thinking about war, foreign policy and the (primarily British) policy of appeasement, which sought to accommodate the Third Reich? Why did Britain itself for long prefer appeasement to collective security? Furthermore, the events in the Far East are examined and a contrast is drawn between the greater interest of the United States in that region than in Europe throughout the 1930s. Lastly, the complex process by which European war, starting in September 1939, became world war is treated as much more than an epilogue to what happened during the preceding decade.
Table of Contents
- The peace settlement and the 1920s
- Hitlerism and the depression years
- German war preparations - an overview
- the Western powers and appeasement
- appeasement and aggression, 1935-36
- prelude to German aggression
- German expansion in 1938
- resistance takes shape
- the Soviet Union
- the Far East
- the United States
- the European war
- world war.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719059582
Description
This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets' work. The anthology reveals the diversity of women's poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, across political affiliations and forms of publication. Notes on the poems and an introduction explain the contexts of Civil War, religious conflict, and scientific and literary development. The anthology enables a more comprehensive understanding of seventeenth-century women's poetic culture, both in its own right and in relation to prominent male poets such as Marvell, Milton and Dryden. -- .
Table of Contents
- The peace settlement and the 1920s
- Hitlerism and the depression years
- German war preparations - an overview
- the Western powers and appeasement
- appeasement and aggression, 1935-36
- prelude to German aggression
- German expansion in 1938
- resistance takes shape
- the Soviet Union
- the Far East
- the United States
- the European war
- world war.
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