Gottlieb / Unknown / Hucker The Munich Crisis, politics and the people

International, transnational and comparative perspectives
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3809-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Cultural History of Modern War

Bringing together leading historians, this volume offers a vital and timely reassessment of Munich Crisis of 1938 from the point of view of the politicians, the people, and public opinion. It takes into account the profound social, cultural, and psychological effects of the crisis, hitherto neglected aspects of this clash between democracy and dictatorship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Gottlieb, Julie

Hucker, Daniel

Toye, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Julie V. Gottlieb, Daniel Hucker and Richard Toye
1 Czechoslovakia, Czecho-Slovakia and the Munich Agreement
Mary Heimann
2 A very long shadow: The Munich Agreement in post-war Czechoslovak communist propaganda, ideology and historiography, 1948-1989
Jakub Drábik
3 ‘Curs Yapping Round the Dying Stag’, or the rituals of fractured societies: Hungary and Poland in the vortex of the Munich Crisis of 1938
Miklos Lojko
4 ‘What, No Chair for Me?’ Russia’s conspicuous absence from the Munich Conference
Gabriel Gorodetsky
5 Churchill, Munich, and the origins of the Grand Alliance
Richard Toye
6 Munich and the unexpected rise of American power
Andrew Preston
7 Mussolini, Munich, and the Italian people
Christian Goeschel
8 ‘England is pro-Hitler’: German popular opinion during the Czechoslovakian Crisis, 1938
Karina Urbach
9 Munich and the masses: emotional inflammation, mental health and shame in Britain during the September crisis
Julie V. Gottlieb
10 Melanie Klein and the coming of World War Two: a clinical archive, 1938
Michal Shapira
11 The poet’s perspective on the Munich Crisis: ‘news that STAYS news’?
Helen Goethals
12 Public opinion, policymakers, and the Munich Crisis: adding emotion to international history
Daniel Hucker
13 France in the ‘blue light’ of Munich: popular agency, activity, and the reframing of history
Jessica Wardhaugh
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julie V. Gottlieb is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield

Daniel Hucker is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nottingham

Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter