The Munich Crisis, Politics and the People

International, Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

Daniel Hucker editor Richard Toye editor Julie Gottlieb editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:5th Jan '21

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The Munich Crisis, Politics and the People cover

The Munich Crisis of 1938 had major diplomatic as well as personal and psychological repercussions. As much as it was a climax in the clash between dictatorship and democracy, it was also a People’s Crisis and an event that gripped and worried the people around the world. The traditional approach has been to examine the crisis from the vantage points of high politics and diplomacy. Traditional approaches have failed to acknowledge the profound social, cultural and psychological impacts of diplomatic events, an imbalance that is redressed in this volume. Taking a range of national examples and using a variety of methods, The Munich Crisis, Politics and the People recreates the experience of living through the crisis in Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Britain, Hungary, the Soviet Union and the USA.

'This collection comes strongly recommended not just to those with a particular interest in the Munich Crisis and the Appeasement process of the 1930s but also to those more widely engaged with the history of popular opinion in a mass media age, the history of emotions, and comparative international history.'
Journal of British Studies, Volume 62, Issue 2 (April 2023)

ISBN: 9781526138088

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 21mm

Weight: 544g

312 pages