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The Munich Crisis, politics and the people
International, transnational and comparative perspectives
EDITED BY JULIE V. GOTTLIEB, DANIEL HUCKER AND RICHARD TOYE
Manchester University Press
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Contents
Introduction
Julie V. Gottlieb, Daniel Hucker and Richard Toye
Czechoslovakia, Czecho-Slovakia and the Munich Agreement
Mary Heimann
A very long shadow: the Munich Agreement in post-war Czechoslovak communist propaganda, ideology and historiography, 194889
Jakub Drbik
Curs yapping round the dying stag, or the rituals of fractured societies: Hungary and Poland in the vortex of the Munich Crisis of 1938
Miklos Lojko
What, no chair for me? Russias conspicuous absence from the Munich Conference
Gabriel Gorodetsky
Churchill, Munich and the origins of the Grand Alliance
Richard Toye
Munich and the unexpected rise of American power
Andrew Preston
Mussolini, Munich and the Italian people
Christian Goeschel
England is pro-Hitler: German popular opinion during the Czechoslovakian crisis, 1938
Karina Urbach
Munich and the masses: emotional inflammation, mental health and shame in Britain during the September crisis
Julie V. Gottlieb
Melanie Klein and the coming of the Second World War: a clinical archive, 1938
Michal Shapira
The poets perspective on the Munich Crisis: news that STAYS news?
Helen Goethals
Public opinion, policy makers and the Munich Crisis: adding emotion to international history
Daniel Hucker
France in the blue light of Munich: popular agency, activity and the reframing of history
Jessica Wardhaugh
Jakub Drbik works at the Institute of History within the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and teaches at the Masaryk University in Brno. He is an expert on the history of fascism, particularly British and Czech fascism, and his research also touches on aspects of post-1945 Czechoslovak history. He is the author of two books in Czech and one in Slovak about the history of fascism.
Christian Goeschel is a senior lecturer in modern European history at the University of Manchester and a former visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. His publications include Suicide in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2009; German translation Suhrkamp, 2011), and Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance (Yale University Press, 2018; with Italian, German and Danish editions published in 2019).
Helen Goethals is Professor of Commonwealth Studies at the University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurs. She has published widely on the links between poetry and politics, and is currently preparing an anthology of poems written in response to the Munich Crisis.
Gabriel Gorodetsky is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. He has published widely on the history of Soviet foreign policy. Most recently, he edited and annotated The Complete Maisky Diaries, 3 volumes (Yale University Press, 2018). A compendium volume, The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St. Jamess, was published by Yale University Press in 2015.
Julie V. Gottlieb is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. She has published extensively on politics, gender and culture in interwar Britain, including two monographs: Feminine Fascism: Women in Britains Fascist Movement 19231945 (I.B. Tauris, 2000) and Guilty Women, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Interwar Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). This is her third collaboration as editor with Richard Toye. Her chapter in this collection draws on research for her project Suicide, Society and Crisis, supported by a Wellcome Seed Award (201719). With the assistance of Liam Liburd and funding from the Max Batley Legacy, she hosted the conference, from which this collection emerged, in June 2018, at the University of Sheffield.
Mary Heimann is Chair of Modern History at Cardiff University. She is an expert in both Czechoslovak and British history and is best known as the author of Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed (Yale University Press, 2009), eskoslovensko stt, kter zklamal (Petrkov, 2020) and Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (Oxford University Press, 1995).