Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars

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, Bene, Chiang and Mao.

'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.

Autorentext
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 .

Inhalt
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 Bene; R.Crampton Mussolini, Il Duce; A.Cassels Hitler; N.Gregor The maps on Churchill's mind; G.Best Franklin D. Roosevelt; S.Casey