British foreign policy, 19191939

By (author) Paul Doerr

Publication date:

02 April 1998

Length of book:

304 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780719046728

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Provides students with a clear narrative overview of the period which will enable them to form critical opinions. Introduces students to the historical controversies of the period and communicates the results of recent specialist studies to a student readership in an easily understood manner. An accessible, clearly written account accompanied by useful bibliography, chronology, tables and maps, and written by an author teaching in the field.

Chronology
1. The Background
2. The Paris Peace Conference, 1919: ‘An Appalling Dispersal of Energy’
3. Maintaining the Peace, 1920-1923
4. An Era of Stability and Promise, 1924-1929
5. The Impact of the Great Depression, 1929-1933
6. The Foreign Office
7. From the Rise of Hitler to the Conquest of Ethiopia
8. ‘I Love a Crisis’ : The Rhineland and the Impact of the Spanish Civil War, 1936
9. Active Appeasement, 1938
10. The End of Appeasement and the Rise of Containment, 1939
11. Conclusion
Bibliographical Guide
Maps