Lothar (Hrsg.) Kettenacker

The Legacies of Two World Wars

European Societies in the Twentieth Century

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The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done mainly, if one is to believe US policy at the time, to liberate the people of Iraq from an oppressive dictator. However, the many protests in London, New York, and other cities imply that the policy of making the world safe for democracy was not shared by millions of people in many Western countries. Thinking about this controversy inspired the present volume, which takes a closer look at how society responded to the outbreaks and conclusions of the First and Second World Wars. In order to examine this relationship between the conduct of wars and public opinion, leading scholars trace the moods and at… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Riotte, Torsten (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-85745-180-4
EAN: 9780857451804
Produktnummer: 23242569
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 334 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.2 cm 564 g
Gewicht: 564
Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor

Torsten Riotte is a lecturer in History at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Educated at Cologne and Cambridge Universities, he worked at the German Historical Institute London (2003-2007) where he edited the multi-volume edition British Envoys to Germany, 1815-1866. He is the author of a number of articles on British and European history and co-editor of The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837 (2007) and The Diplomats' World. A Cultural History of Diplomacy (2008).