British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939 [Paperback]

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

Paul W. Doerr teaches European and British History at Acadia University, Nova Scotia