Appeasing Fascism: Articles from the Wayne State University Conference on Munich After Fifty - Softcover

Wayne State University Conference On Munich After Fifty Years (1988); Small, Melvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819184403 ISBN 13: 9780819184405

Publisher: Univ Pr of Amer, 1991

Synopsis

This volume contains six new articles by scholars on appeasement during the 1930s. It is still an important issue with international leaders, who referred to the lessons learnt at Munich as they plotted their strategies during the Gulf Crisis and War of 1990-91. Political scientist J. David Singer introduces the volume with an examination of the concept and explains the differences between appeasement and conciliation in diplomatic negotiations. Nazi history expert Gerhard Weinberg, who concentrates on German motivations in 1938 in his article, contends that we still misunderstood Hitler's foreign policy. Political scientist Otto Feinstein then shifts the focus to London, where he sees a British leadership that is opposed to culturally plural and democratic responses to the forces of industrialization and modernization. Historian Arnold Offner explores the not altogether innocent role played by Franklin Roosevelt and the Americans in appeasement at Munich. Historian Douglas Little also focuses his attention on Washington with his analysis of American policy in the Spanish Civil War. Finally, Melvin Small offers a new way to interpret the actions taken at Munich and reveals how the history of that event has affected America's Cold War diplomacy.

About this title

About the Author:

Melvin Small is Professor of History at Wayne State University. Otto Feinstein is Professor of Political Science at the same university.

Review:

This volume brings together the views of six leading historians. The range of the subjects with which they deal ...are especially valuable. (Bradford Perkins, University of Michigan The International History Review)

This piece should be widely read by scholars. (The International History Review)

This piece should be widely read by scholars. (The International History Review)

This volume brings together the views of six leading historians. The range of the subjects with which they deal ...are especially valuable. (Bradford Perkins, University of Michigan The International History Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Amer
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0819184403
• ISBN 13: 9780819184405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110
• Editor: Feinstein Otto