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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457349803321

Titolo

French foreign and defence policy, 1918-1940 : the decline and fall of a great power / / edited by Robert Boyce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-74827-2

1-280-14050-X

0-203-97922-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Modern European History

Altri autori (Persone)

BoyceRobert W. D. <1943->

Disciplina

944.081

Soggetti

International relations - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

France Foreign relations 1914-1940

France History, Military 20th century

France Economic policy 1918-1945

Maginot Line (France)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 France at the Paris Peace Conference; 2 France and the politics of steel, from the Treaty of Versailles to the International Steel Entente, 1919-1926; 3 Raymond Poincaré and the Ruhr crisis; 4 Economics and Franco-Belgian relations in the inter-war period; 5 Reparations and war debts; 6 Business as usual; 7 René Massigli and Germany, 1919-1938; 8 Franco-Italian relations in flux, 1918-1940; 9 In defence of the Maginot Line; 10 A douce and dextrous persuasion

11 Daladier, Bonnet and the decision-making process during the Munich crisis, 193812 Intelligence and the end of appeasement; 13 France and the phoney war, 1939-1940; Index

Sommario/riassunto

French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940  outlines France's strategies for protection and appeasement during this period and places interwar relations in a larger European context. This book examines: * relationships with key countries such as Italy and Russia * the significance of interwar France to 20th Century European



integration * the historical context of the policies * the setbacks and defeats of the period and how they should be evaluated