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Appeasement in Europe: A Reassessment of U.S. Policies: Contributions to the Study of World History

Autor Richard D. Challener, David F. Schmitz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 1990 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This collection of essays representing new thought on U.S. appeasement policy in 1930's Europe enlarges the traditional focus of research beyond United States-German relations by investigating American appeasement policy toward different nations. Zeroing in on the ideology of policymakers and the influences of various groups on the development of appeasement policy during the Roosevelt administration, the essays pose new questions about the role of antibolshevism, examine appeasement as one part of the quest for stability and peace in Europe, and provide different and illuminating insights not only on appeasement but also on the nature of U.S. foreign policy prior to World War II. The new scholarship presented here contributes to a more complete understanding of how the United States responded to the challenge of fascism in Europe during the 1930s.Schmitz's introduction defines appeasement and discusses why and how the policy was formulated and in what respects it differed from the policy of Great Britain. The book outlines European political conditions of the period and how U.S. appeasement policy sought to prevent German and Italian aggression by either applying economic pressure or offering incentives for cooperation with Western democracies. In the first chapter by Wayne S. Cole, the three distinct schools of historical interpretation that have emerged to explain U.S. appeasement policy are reviewed and assessed. Where as the ideological dimensions of appeasement have been long overlooked by historians, Douglas Little's chapter on the British and American responses to the Spanish Civil War addresses the problem of how to contain the right without aiding Soviet foreign policy. Chapter three, by Jane Karoline Vieth, reexamines the crucial events leading up to the Munich agreement and its aftermath through a study of the thoughts and actions of Neville Chamberlain, Roosevelt, and Joseph P. Kennedy, and their critics. In chapter four, Schmitz investigates how prior American experience with Fascist Italy influenced U.S. policy toward Nazi Germany and motivated attempts to use Mussolini as a moderating force on Hitler. Chapter four also deals with material that is crucial for understanding American policy: the question of Roosevelt's response to British appeasement. The concluding essay by Richard A. Harrison examines possible U.S. and British alternatives to Chamberlain's appeasement policies that could have been employed. Appeasement in Europe will aid historians, students, and informed general readers in attaining a more complete understanding of American appeasement policy within the broader context of U.S. diplomacy during the 1930s.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313259258
ISBN-10: 0313259259
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Contributions to the Study of World History

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

DAVID F. SCHMITZ is Assistant Professor of History at Whitman College. He is the author of The United States and Fascist Italy.RICHARD D. CHALLENER is Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of many books, including Admirals, Generals, and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914.

Cuprins

Introduction by David F. SchmitzAmerican Appeasement by Wayne S. ColeAntibolshevism and Appeasement: Great Britain, the United States, and the Spanish Civil War by Douglas LittleMunich and American Appeasement by Jane Karoline Vieth"Speaking the Same Language": The U.S. Response to the Italo-Ethiopian War and the Origins of American Appeasement by David F. SchmitzThe United States and Great Britain: Presidential Diplomacy and Alternatives to Appeasement in the 1930s by Richard A. Harrison.Selected BibliographyIndex