FDR's ambassadors and the diplomacy of crisis : from the rise of Hitler to the end of World War II / / David Mayers

• Autore: Mayers David Allan <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 973.917
• Soggetto topico: Ambassadors - United States - History - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 - Diplomatic history
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations 1933-1945
• Classificazione: POL011000
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Axis: 1. Rising sun; 2. Third Reich; 3. New Roman Empire; Part II. Victims: 4. Middle Kingdom; 5. France Agonistes; Part III. Victors: 6. Britannia; 7. Great Patriotic War; 8. Conclusions: US diplomacy and war; Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: What effect did personality and circumstance have on US foreign policy during World War II? This incisive account of US envoys residing in the major belligerent countries - Japan, Germany, Italy, China, France, Great Britain, USSR - highlights the fascinating role played by such diplomats as Joseph Grew, William Dodd, William Bullitt, Joseph Kennedy and W. Averell Harriman. Between Hitler's 1933 ascent to power and the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki, US ambassadors sculpted formal policy - occasionally deliberately, other times inadvertently - giving shape and meaning not always intended by Franklin D. Roosevelt or predicted by his principal advisors. From appeasement to the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War, David Mayers examines the complicated interaction between policy, as conceived in Washington, and implementation on the ground in Europe and Asia. By so doing, he also sheds needed light on the fragility, ambiguities and enduring urgency of diplomacy and its crucial function in international politics.
• Altri titoli varianti: FDR's Ambassadors & the Diplomacy of Crisis
• Titolo autorizzato: FDR's ambassadors and the diplomacy of crisis
• ISBN: 1-139-85441-0; 1-107-23770-X; 1-139-84533-0; 1-139-84060-6; 1-107-25494-9; 1-139-84297-8; 1-139-38156-3; 1-283-74156-3; 1-139-84178-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817249803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II