HIST2875
HIST2875 Module Reading List
Dr Geoff Waddington
G.T.P.Waddington@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
HIST 2875: From Versailles to Potsdam: Conferences, Crises and Conflicts, 1919-45
Week 3. Peacemaking, 1919-1923
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the international system imposed by the peace settlement at the end of the Great War and to detect elements of strength and vulnerability in it.
Key readings for class preparation
Butler, R., ‘The Peace Settlement of Versailles, 1918-1933’ in New Cambridge Modern History 12, vol. 12, The Shifting Balance of World Forces, 1898-1945’, online
Marks, S, ‘Mistakes and Myths. The Allies, Germany and the Versailles Treaty, 1918-1921’, Journal of Modern History, vol. 86, no. 3, 2013, online
Trachtenberg, M., ‘Versailles after Sixty Years’ Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 17, no 3, 1982, online
Week 4. Security and disarmament, 1920-34
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the relationship between security and disarmament during the 1920s, and the impact of the Locarno treaties.
Key readings for class preparation
Grathwol, R., ‘Gustav Stresemann: Reflections on His Foreign Policy’, Journal of Modern History, vol. 45, no. 1, 1973, online
Grün, G., ‘Locarno: Idea and Reality,’ International Affairs, vol. 31, no. 4, 1955, online
Magee, F., ‘Limited Liability. Britain and the Treaty of Locarno’, Twentieth Century British History, vol. 6, no. 1, 1995, online
Week 5: The Washington Conference and the Far East, 1919-39
General objective: To enhance student unCrises of 1935-6derstanding and appreciation of the reasons behind the activation of Japanese foreign policy during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and the responses to that development.
Key readings for class preparation
Goldstein, Erik, ‘The Evolution of British Diplomatic Strategy for the Washington Conference’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, vol. 4, no. 3, 1993, online
Thorne, C, ‘The Shanghai Crisis of 1932: The Basis of British Policy’, American Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 6, 1975, online
Clifford, N., ‘Britain, America and the Far East, 1937-1940. A Failure in Co-operation’, Journal of British Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1963, online
Week 6: The International Crises of 1935-6
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the series of international crises that gripped the international system during the course of 1935-6 and to evaluate their short and long term repercussions
Key readings for class preparation
Frank Jr., Willard C., ‘The Spanish Civil War and the Coming of the Second World War’, The International History Review, vol. 9, no. 3, 1987, online
Parker, R., ‘Britain, France and the Ethiopian Crisis’, English Historical Review, vol. 89, no. 351,1974, online
Watt, D., ‘The Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936-1940’, Review of Politics, vol. 22, no. 4, 1960, online
Week 8: The Approach of War, 1937-1939
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the international crises that resulted in the outbreak of war in 1939, and of the forces that drove them forward.
Key readings for class preparation
Strang, B, ‘Once more unto the breach. Britain’s guarantee to Poland, March 1939’, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 31, no. 4, 1996, online
Overy, R., ‘Germany and the Munich Crisis. A Mutilated Victory?', Diplomacy and Statecraft, vol. 10, nos. 2-3, 1999, online
Carley, M.J., ‘End of the “low, dishonest decade”: Failure of the Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance in 1939’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, 1993, online
Week 9: From European to World War, 1939-1941
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the reasons for the escalation of a European war into a global conflict.
Key readings for class preparation
Reynolds, D., ‘1940 Fulcrum of the Twentieth Century’, International Affairs, 2, 1990, online
Koch, H. W., ‘Hitler’s Programme and the Genesis of Operation Barbarossa’, The Historical Journal, vol. 26, no. 4, 1983 online
Iriye, A., The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, ebook, pp. 113-167
Week 10: The Second World War, 1941-45
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the factors which determined the fortunes of the Allies and the Axis during the Second World War.
Key readings for class preparation
Di Nardo, R., ‘The Dysfunctional Coalition: The Axis Powers and the Eastern Front in World War Two’, Journal of Military History, vol. 60, no. 4, 1996 online
Overy, R., ‘A Genius for Mass-Production’, chapter 6, pp. 180-207 from his Why the Allies Won
Overy, R., Hitler’s War and the German Economy’, Economic History Review, vol. 35, no. 2, 1982, online
HIST2875 BIBLIOGRAPHY
This bibliography is not exhaustive and represents only part of what is available in the Brotherton and Student Lending Libraries. Use your initiative in finding other relevant materials which are located in the holdings of either Modern History or Politics. You will find that many of the books listed under one heading will be valuable for other topics as well. Please approach your reading for this module in a responsible manner and always try to plan your reading carefully and some time in advance. Please do not remove material from the Library just because you can do so. While it is sitting on your shelf, unread, someone else could be using it. Be prepared to make use of the recall system which allows you to recall books that are currently on loan. Unless stated otherwise all the books listed are in Modern History.
- General works covering all or part of the period
Carr, Edward H., The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939. An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
Cassels, Alan, Ideology and international relations in the modern world
Lauren, Paul G., Craig, Gordon A. & George, Alexander L, Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of our Time
Kitchen, Martin, Europe Between the Wars. A Political History
Marks, Sally, The ebbing of European ascendancy : an international history of the world, 1914-1945
Marks, Sally, The Illusion of Peace ebook
Parker, R. A. C., Europe, 1919-45 (London, 1969)
Ross, Graham , The great powers and the decline of the European states system 1914-1945
Steiner, Zara, The lights that failed : European international history, 1919-1933
- General works on the origins of the Second World War
Adamthwaite, Anthony, The Making of the Second World War
Baumont, Maurice, The origins of the Second World War
Bell, Philip, The Origins of the Second World War in Europe
Boyce, Robert & Maiolo, Joseph A., eds, The origins of World War Two : the debate continues
Boyce, Robert & Robertson, Esmonde M., eds, Paths to war : new essays on the origins of the Second World War
Craig, Gordon A. & Gilbert, Felix, The Diplomats, 1919-1939
Crozier, Andrew J., The causes of the Second World War
Iriye, Akira, Pearl Harbor and the coming of the Pacific War : a brief history with documents and essays
Iriye, Akira, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific ebook
Kaiser, David, Economic diplomacy and the origins of the Second World War : Germany, Britain, France, and Eastern Europe, 1930-1939
Lamb, Margaret & Tarling, Nicholas, From Versailles to Pearl Harbor : the origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia
Martel, Gordon, ed., The origins of the Second World War reconsidered : A.J.P. Taylor and the historians
Overy, Richard & Wheatcroft, Andrew, The Road to War
Robertson, Esmonde M., ed., The Origins of the Second World War. Historical Interpretations
Taylor, Alan J. P., The Origins of the Second World War
- General works on the course of the Second World War
Argyle, Christopher, Japan at war, 1937-45
Black, Jeremy, ed., The Second World War
Butler, J.R.M., Grand Strategy Vols 1-6
Calvorcoressi, Peter & Wint, Guy, Total War
Deist, Wilhelm, et al, Germany and the Second World War, vols 1-10
Erickson, John, The road to Berlin
Erickson, John, The Road to Stalingrad
Gilbert, Martin, The Second World War
Iriye, A, Power and culture : the Japanese-American war, 1941-1945
Keegan, John, The Second World War
Laqueur, Walter, ed., The Second World War : essays in military and political history
Langhorne, R, ed., Diplomacy and intelligence during the Second World War : essays in honour of F.H. Hinsley
Liddell-Hart, Sir Basil, History of the Second World War
Kitchen, Martin, A world in flames : a short history of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939-1945
Kitchen, Martin, Nazi Germany at war
Mackenzie, S. P., The Second World War in Europe
Michel, Henri, The Second World War
Overy, Richard, Why the Allies won
Parker, Robert, Struggle for survival : the history of the Second World War
Parker, Robert, The Second World War. A Short History
Purdue, A. W., The Second World War
Seaton, A, The Russo-German War
Schackleton, Richard, The Second World War
Spector, R, Eagle against the Sun. The American War with Japan
Tarling, Nicholas, Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War
Tucker, Spencer C, The Second World War
Weinberg, Gerhard, A World at Arms
Weinberg, Gerhard, World in the balance : behind the scenes of World War II
- The Grand Alliance
Beitzell, Robert, The uneasy alliance : America, Britain, and Russia, 1941-1943
Butler, Susan, ed., My dear Mr. Stalin : the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin
Dallek, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American foreign policy, 1932-1945
Danchev, Alex, Establishing the Anglo-American alliance : the Second World War diaries of Brigadier Vivian Dykes
Deane, J, The strange alliance : the story of American efforts at wartime co-operation with Russia
Drummond. D, The passing of American neutrality, 1937-1941
Feis, Herbert, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin. The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought
Friedel, F., Franklin D. Roosevelt : a rendezvous with destiny
Harriman, W & Abel, E, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin
Herring, G, Aid to Russia, 1941-1946 : strategy, diplomacy, the origins of the Cold War
Israeljan, V, The anti-Hitler coalition : diplomatic co-operation between the USSR, USA and Britain during the Second World War, 1941-1945
Kacewicz, G, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the Polish government in exile (1939-1945)
Karski, Jan, The Great Powers and Poland 1919-1945
King, F, The new internationalism : allied policy and the European peace 1939-1945
Kitchen, Martin, British policy towards the Soviet Union during the Second World War
Kolko, G, The politics of war : Allied diplomacy and the world crisis of 1943-1945
Lane, A, ed., The rise and fall of the Grand Alliance, 1941-1945
Lash, J, Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941 : the partnership that saved the West
Loewenheim, F, et al, Roosevelt and Churchill : their secret wartime correspondence (A collection of documents with useful introductions to each of the chapters)
Louis, William, Imperialism at bay 1941-1945 : the United States and the decolonization of the British Empire
Lukas, R. The strange allies : the United States and Poland, 1941-1945
Mayle, P, Eureka summit : agreement in principle and the Big Three at Tehran, 1943
McNeill, W, America, Britain, & Russia : their co-operation and conflict 1941-1946
Ovendale, Ritchie, The English-speaking alliance : Britain, the United States, the Dominions and the Cold War 1945-1951
Polonsky, Anthony, The great powers and the Polish question, 1941-45 : a documentary study in Cold War origins
Reynolds, David, Allies at war : the Soviet, American, and British experience, 1939-1945
Reynolds, David, The creation of the Anglo-American alliance, 1937-41 : a study in competitive co-operation
Ross, Graham, The Foreign Office and the Kremlin : British documents on Anglo-Soviet relations 1941-45 (A collection of documents with useful summaries)
Ryan, H, The Vision of Anglo-America. The US-UK Alliance and the Emerging Cold War 1943-46
Sainsbury, Keith, The turning point : Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, and Chiang-Kai-Shek, 1943 : the Moscow, Cairo and Teheran conferences
Sharp, T, The wartime alliance and the zonal division of Germany
Smith, G, American diplomacy during the Second World War, 1941-1945
Thorne, Christopher, Allies of a kind : the United States, Britain, and the war against Japan, 1941-1945
Tuttle, D, Harry L. Hopkins and Anglo-American-Soviet relations, 1941-1945
Wheeler-Bennett John & Nicholls, Anthony, The semblance of peace : the political settlement after the Second World War.
- Relations between Germany, Italy and Japan
Deakin, Frederick, William., The brutal friendship : Mussolini, Hitler and the fall of Italian fascism.
Knox, MacGregor, Common Destiny : Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Martin, Bernd, Japan and Germany in the modern world
Meskill, Joanna, Hitler & Japan : the hollow alliance
Morley, James W., Deterrent diplomacy : Japan, Germany, and the USSR, 1935-1940 : selected translations from Taiheiyō Sensō e no michi, kaisen gaikō shi
Presseisen, Ernst L., Germany and Japan : a study in totalitarian diplomacy, 1933-1941
Wiskemann, Elizabeth, The Rome-Berlin Axis : a history of the relations between Hitler and Mussolini
- The Origins of the Cold War
Alperovitz, Gar, Atomic Diplomacy
Alperovitz, Gar, The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth
Ambrose, Steven, Rise to Globalism
Anderson, Terry, The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947
Balfour, Michael, The adversaries : America, Russia and the open world 1941-62
Bialer Serewyn & Mandelbaum, Michael, The global rivals
Buhite, Russell, Decisions at Yalta : an appraisal of summit diplomacy
Clemens, Diane, Yalta
Colbert, Evelyn, Southeast Asia in international politics, 1941-1956
Davis, Lynn, The Cold War begins : Soviet-American conflict over Eastern Europe
Deutscher, Isaac, Stalin
Feis,Herbert, Between war and peace : the Potsdam Conference.
Feis,Herbert, Japan subdued : the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific
Gaddis, John, The long peace : inquiries into the history of the Cold War
Gaddis, John, The United States and the origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947
Gaddis, John, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
Gittings, John, The world and China, 1922-1972
Gori, Francesca & Pons, S, eds, The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War, 1943-53
Hammond, Thomas, ed., Witnesses to the Origins of the Cold War
Harbutt, Fraser, The Iron Curtain : Churchill, America, and the origins of the Cold War
Herz, Martin., Beginnings of the Cold War.
Hingley, Ronald, Joseph Stalin : man and legend
Jelavich, Barbara, St. Petersburg and Moscow : tsarist and Soviet foreign policy, 1814-1974
Kennan, George, Memoirs, 1925-1950
Kennan, George, Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
Kennan, George, Russia, the Atom and the West
LaFeber, Walter, ed., The origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 : a historical problem with interpretations and documents
Lippmann,Walter, The cold war; a study in U.S. foreign policy.
Luard, Evan, ed., The cold war : a reappraisal
Lundestad, Geir, The American non-policy towards eastern Europe, 1943-1947 : universalism in an area not of essential interest to the United States
Mastny, Vojtech, Russia's road to the Cold War : diplomacy, warfare, and the politics of communism, 1941-1945
Mastny, Vojtech, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: the Stalin Years
McCagg, William, Stalin embattled, 1943-1948
McCauley, Martin, The Origins of the Cold War
Mee, Charles, Meeting at Potsdam
Nagai, Yonosuke & Iriye, Akira, The origins of the Cold War in Asia
Paterson, Thomas, ed., The Origins of the Cold War
Raack, R, Stalin's drive to the west, 1938-1945 : the origins of the Cold War
Rothwell, Victor, Britain and the Cold War, 1941-1947
Schaller, Michael, The U.S. crusade in China, 1938-1945
Schaller, Michael, The United States and China in the twentieth century
Seton-Watson, Hugh, The East European revolution
Snell, John, ed., The meaning of Yalta : big three diplomacy and the new balance of power
Thomas, Hugh, Armed truce : the beginnings of the Cold War 1945-46
Ulam, Adam, Expansion and coexistence : Soviet foreign policy, 1917-73
Ulam, Adam , Stalin: The Man and His Era
Yergin, Daniel, The Shattered Peace. The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State
Young, John, Cold War Europe 1945-89 : a political history
Zubok, Vladislav & Pleshakov, Constantine, Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War. From Stalin to Khrushchev
- Anglo-French relations
Bell, Philip M. H., France and Britain, 1900-1940 : entente and estrangement
Davis, Richard, Anglo-French relations before the Second World War : appeasement and crisis
Dockrill, Michael L., British establishment perspectives on France, 1936-40
Rostow, Nicholas, Anglo-French relations, 1934-36
Sharp, Alan & Stone, Glyn, eds, Anglo-French relations in the twentieth century : rivalry and cooperation
Thomas, Martin, Britain, France and appeasement : Anglo-French relations in the Popular Front era
Waites, Neville, ed., Troubled neighbours : Franco-British relations in the twentieth century
Wolfers, Arnold, Britain and France between two wars : conflicting strategies of peace since Versailles
- Anglo-American relations
Cowman, I, Dominion or decline : Anglo-American naval relations on the Pacific, 1937-1941
Dimbleby, David & Reynolds, David, An ocean apart : the relationship between Britain and America in the twentieth century
MacDonald, Callum A., The United States, Britain, and appeasement, 1936-1939
McKercher, Brian J. C., & Aronsen, Lawrence, eds, The North Atlantic triangle in a changing world : Anglo-American-Canadian relations, 1902-1956
McKercher, Brian J. C., ed., Anglo-American relations in the 1920s : the struggle for supremacy
McKercher, Brian J. C., Transition of power : Britain's loss of global preeminence to the United States, 1930-1945
Rock, William R., Chamberlain and Roosevelt : British foreign policy and the United States, 1937-1940
- British foreign and imperial policy
Cain, P. J. & Hopkins, A. G., British imperialism : crisis and deconstruction 1914-1990
Carter, Gwendolen M., The British Commonwealth and international security : the role of the dominions, 1919-1939
Dilks, David, N., ed., Retreat from power : studies in Britain's foreign policy of the twentieth century
Dockrill, Michael L. & McKercher, Brian J. C., eds, Diplomacy and world power : studies in British foreign policy, 1890-1950
Doerr, Paul W., British foreign policy, 1919-1939 : 'Hope for the best, prepare for the worst'
Drummond, Ian M., Imperial economic policy, 1917-1939 : studies in expansion and protection
Garner, Joe, The Commonwealth Office : 1925-68
Grimal, Henri, Decolonization : the British, French, Dutch and Belgian Empires, 1919-1963
Haggie. Paul, Britannia at bay : the defence of the British Empire against Japan 1931-1941
Howard, Michael, The continental commitment : the dilemma of British defence policy in the era of the two world wars : the Ford lectures in the University of Oxford 1971
Kennedy, Paul, The Realities behind Diplomacy. Background Influences on British External Policy, 1965-1980
Mansergh, Nicholas, Survey of British Commonwealth affairs : problems of external policy, 1931-1939
Mansergh, Nicholas, The Commonwealth Experience
McKercher, Brian J. C., & Moss, D. J., Shadow and substance in British foreign policy 1895-1939 : memorial essays honouring C. J. Lowe
Medlicott, William N., British foreign policy since Versailles, 1919-1963
Northedge, Frederick S., The troubled giant : Britain among the great powers, 1916-1939
Post, Gaines, Dilemmas of appeasement : British deterrence and defense, 1934-1937
Reynolds, David, Britannia Overruled. British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century
Young, John, Britain and the world in the twentieth century
- French foreign policy
Adamthwaite, Anthony, France and the coming of the Second World War, 1936-1939
Adamthwaite, Anthony, Grandeur and misery : France's bid for power in Europe, 1914-1940
Alexander, Martin S., The Republic in danger : General Maurice Gamelin and the politics of French defence, 1933-1940
Boyce, Robert, ed., French foreign and defence policy, 1918-1940 : the decline and fall of a great power
Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste, France and the Nazi threat : the collapse of French diplomacy, 1932-1939
Néré, Jacques, The foreign policy of France from 1914 to 1945
Wandycz, Piotr, The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936. French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
Warner, Geoffrey, Pierre Laval and the eclipse of France.
Young, Robert J., In command of France : French foreign policy and military planning, 1933-1940 Laidlaw High Demand Book
- German foreign policy
Bullock, Alan, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
Bullock, Alan, Hitler and Stalin. Parallel Lives
Carr, William, Arms, autarky and aggression : a study in German foreign policy, 1933-1939
Deist, Wilhelm, et al., Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 1, The build-up of German aggression
Fest, Joachim, Hitler
Fink, Carole, Hull, Isabel V. & Knox MacGregor, eds, German nationalism and the European response, 1890-1945
Fox, John P., Germany and the Far Eastern crisis 1931-1938 : a study in diplomacy and ideology
Gehl, Jürgen, Austria, Germany and the Anschluss, 1931-1938
Hiden, John, Germany and Europe, 1919-1939
Hiden, John, Republican and Fascist Germany : themes and variations in the history of Weimar and the Third Reich 1918-45
Hildebrand, Klaus, The foreign policy of the Third Reich
Kershaw, Ian, Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
Kershaw, Ian, Hitler, 1936-45 : nemesis
Kershaw, Ian, The Nazi Dictatorship. Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
Lee, Marshall & Michalka, Wolfgang, German foreign policy 1917-1933 : continuity or break?
Leitz, Christian, Nazi foreign policy, 1933-1941 : the road to global war
Martel, Gordon, ed., Modern Germany reconsidered, 1870-1945
Robertson, Esmonde M., Hitler's pre-war policy and military plans, 1933-1939
Weinberg, Gerhard L., Germany and the Soviet Union, 1939-1941
Weinberg, Gerhard L., Germany, Hitler, and World War II : essays in modern German and world history ebook
Weinberg, Gerhard L., The foreign policy of Hitler's Germany : diplomatic revolution in Europe 1933-36
Weinberg, Gerhard L., The foreign policy of Hitler's Germany : starting World War II, 1937-1939
Wright, Jonathan, Germany and the origins of the Second World War
- Soviet foreign policy
Deutscher, Isaac, Stalin. A Political Biography
Gorodetsky, Gabriel, ed., Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991. A Retrospective
Haslam, Jonathan, The Soviet Union and the struggle for collective security in Europe 1933-39 (London, 1984)
Hochman, Jiri, The Soviet Union and the failure of collective security, 1934-1938
Kennan, George, Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
Lensen, George Alexander, Japanese recognition of the U.S.S.R : Soviet-Japanese relations, 1921-1930.
Nation, R. Craig, Black earth, red star : a history of Soviet security policy, 1917-1991
Nekrich, Aleksandr M., Pariahs, partners, predators : German-Soviet relations, 1922-1941
Phillips, Hugh D., Between the revolution and the West : a political biography of Maxim M. Litvinov
Pons, Silvio, Stalin and the inevitable war, 1936-1941
Ulam, Adam B., Expansion and coexistence : Soviet foreign policy, 1917-73
- Italian foreign policy
Bosworth, R. J. B., Mussolini
Bosworth, R. J. B., The Italian dictatorship : problems and perspectives in the interpretation of Mussolini and fascism
Farrell, Nicholas, Mussolini : a new life
Arielli, Nir. Fascist Italy and the Middle East, 1933-40
Burgwyn, H. James, Italian foreign policy in the interwar period, 1918-1940
Cassels, Alan, Mussolini's early diplomacy
Knox, Macgregor. Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941
Lamb, Richard, Mussolini and the British
Lowe, Cedric J. & Marzari, Italian Foreign Policy, 1870-1940
Mack Smith, Denis, Mussolini
Mallett, Robert, Mussolini and the origins of the Second World War, 1933-1940
Mallett, Robert, The Italian Navy and Fascist expansionism, 1935-40
Neville, Peter, Mussolini
Robertson, Esmonde, M., Mussolini as empire-builder : Europe and Africa, 1932-36
- American foreign policy
Ambrose, Steven E. & Douglas G. Brinkley, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938
Dallek, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American foreign policy, 1932-1945
Drummond, Donald, F., The passing of American neutrality, 1937-1941
Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste, From Wilson to Roosevelt : foreign policy of the United States, 1913-1945
Ferrell, Robert H., American diplomacy in the great depression : Hoover-Stimson foreign policy, 1929-1933.
Ferrell, Robert H., ed., The American Secretaries of State and their Diplomacy, Volumes 10 to13
Heinrichs, Waldo H., American Ambassador : Joseph C. Grew and the development of the United States diplomatic tradition
Leffler, Melvyn P., The elusive quest : America's pursuit of European stability and French security, 1919-1933
Martel, Gordon, ed., American foreign relations reconsidered, 1890-1993
Offner, Arnold A., American appeasement : United States foreign policy and Germany, 1933-1938.
Offner, Arnold A., The Origins of the Second World War. American Foreign Policy and World Politics, 1917-1941
Reynolds, David, From Munich to Pearl Harbor : Roosevelt's America and the origins of the Second World War
Trommler, Frank & McVeigh, Joseph, America and the Germans : an assessment of a three-hundred-year history
- Japanese foreign policy
Barnhart, Michael A., Japan and the world since 1868
Beasley, William G., The Rise of Modern Japan
Beasley, William G., Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945
Bergamini, David, Japan's imperial conspiracy
Crowley, James B., Japan's quest for autonomy : national security and foreign policy, 1930-1938
Jones, Francis C., Japan's new order in east Asia : its rise and fall, 1937-45
Morley, James W., ed., Japan erupts : the London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident, 1928-1932 : selected translations from Taiheiyō Sensō e no michi: kaisen gaikō shi
Morley, James W., ed., The China quagmire : Japan's expansion on the Asian continent 1933-1941 : selected translations from Taiheiyō sensō e no michi : kaisen gaikō shi
Nish, Ian, Japanese foreign policy, 1869-1942 : Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka
Storry, Richard, Japan and the decline of the West in Asia, 1894-1943
- The League of Nations
Baer, George W., Test case : Italy, Ethiopia, and the League of Nations
Barros, James, The League of Nations and the great powers : the Greek-Bulgarian incident, 1925
Barros, James, Office without power : Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond, 1919-1933
Barros, James, Betrayal from within : Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, 1933-1940
Barros, James, The Corfu Incident of 1923 : Mussolini and the League of Nations
Dexter, Bryon, The years of opportunity : the League of Nations, 1920-26
Goodspeed, Stephen S, The nature and function of international organization
Henig, Ruth, ed., The League of Nations
Kimmich, Christoph M., Germany and the League of Nations
Lee, Marshall M., Failure in Geneva : the German Foreign Ministry and the League of Nations, 1926-1933
Scott, George, The rise and fall of the League of Nations
Thorne, Christopher, The limits of foreign policy : the West, the League and the Far Eastern crisis of 1931-1933
Veatch, Richard, Canada and the League of Nations
Walters, Francis P., A history of the League of Nations
Week 3. Peacemaking, 1919-23
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the international system imposed by the peace settlement at the end of the Great War and to detect elements of strength and vulnerability in it.
General Question: What were the triumphs of the Versailles settlement?
Why did the Rhineland and Polish issues loom so large in the deliberations of the ‘Big Three’ during the negotiations at Paris in 1919-20?
Assess Germany’s potential for recovery in the aftermath of the Paris Peace Conference.
Did Italy and Japan have genuine cause for dissatisfaction with the results of the 1919-20 peace settlement?
Books
Burgwyn, H. James, The legend of the mutilated victory : Italy, the Great War, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1915-191
Dockrill, Michael L., Peace without promise : Britain and the peace conferences 1919-23
Keylor, William R., ed. The legacy of the Great War : peacemaking, 1919
Lentin, Antony, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and the guilt of Germany : an essay in the pre-history of appeasement
MacMillan, Margaret, Peacemakers : the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war
Mayer, Arno J., Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking: Containment and Counterrevolution at Versailles, 1918-1919
McDougall, Walter A., France's Rhineland diplomacy, 1914-1924 : the last bid for a balance of power in Europe
Nelson, Harold I., Land and Power: British and Allied Policy on Germany’s Frontiers, 1916-19
*Nicolson, Harold, Peacemaking, 1919
*Sharp, Alan, The Versailles settlement : peacemaking in Paris, 1919
Trachtenberg, Marc, Reparation in world politics : France and European economic diplomacy, 1916-1923
Articles
Northedge, F., ‘1917-1919 The Implications for Britain’, Journal of contemporary history., 1968
Dockrill, M. & Steiner, Z., ‘The Foreign Office at the Paris Peace Conference’, International history review., 1980
Trachtenberg, M., ‘Versailles after Sixty Years’ Journal of contemporary history., 1982
Lentin A., ‘“Une aberration inexplicable”? Clemenceau and the Abortive Anglo-French Guarantee Treaty of 1919’, Diplomacy and statecraft., 1997
Misc. The journal of modern history., Special Issue on the Paris Peace Conference, 1979
Lynch, A., ‘Woodrow Wilson and the principle of national self-determination: Reconsideration,’ Review of international studies., 2002
McCrum, R., ‘French Rhineland Policy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919,’ The historical journal., 1978
Week 4. Security and Disarmament, 1920-34
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the relationship between security and disarmament during the 1920s, and the impact of the Locarno treaties.
General question: Why was the Locarno treaty signed, and which power benefited most from its conclusion?
Books
Bennett, Edward W., German rearmament and the West, 1932-1933
*Bretton, Henry L., Stresemann and the revision of Versailles : a fight for reason
Lowe, Cedric J. & Dockrill, M. L., The mirage of power : British foreign policy, 1902[-1922]
Dutton, David, Austen Chamberlain : gentleman in politics
Fink, Carole, Frohn, Axel & Heideking, Jürgen, eds., Genoa, Rapallo, and European reconstruction in 1922
Fink, Carole, The Genoa Conference : European diplomacy, 1921-1922
Gatzke, Hans W., Stresemann and the rearmament of Germany.
*Grayson, Richard, Austen Chamberlain and the commitment to Europe : British foreign policy, 1924-29
*Jacobson, Jon, Locarno diplomacy : Germany and the West, 1925-1929.
Kaufman, Robert. G., Arms control during the pre-nuclear era : the United States and naval limitation between the two world wars
*Kitching, Carolyn, Britain and the problem of international disarmament, 1919-1934
Kleine-Ahlbrandt, William. L., The burden of victory : France, Britain and the enforcement of the Versailles peace, 1919-1925
McKercher, Brian J. C., ed., Arms limitation and disarmament : restraints on war, 1899-1939
Noel-Baker, Philip, The first World Disarmament Conference, 1932-1933 and why it failed
*Orde, Anne, Great Britain and international security, 1920-1926
*Richardson, Dick, The evolution of British disarmament policy in the 1920s
Segel, Edward B., Sir John Simon and British foreign policy : the diplomacy of disarmament in the early 1930's
Articles
Cornebise, E, ‘Gustav Stresemann and the Ruhr Occupation. The Making of a Statesman’, European studies review., 1972
*Grathwol, R., ‘Gustav Stresemann: Reflections on His Foreign Policy’, The journal of modern history
*Grun, G., ‘Locarno: Idea and Reality,’ International affairs., 1955
*Johnson, G., ‘“Das Kind” Revisited: Lord D’Abernon and German Security Policy 1922-1925’, Contemporary European history., 2000
*Magee, F., ‘Limited Liability. Britain and the Treaty of Locarno’, 20th century British history.,1995
Sharp, A., ‘Lord Curzon and British Policy towards the Franco-Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr in 1923’, Diplomacy and statecraft., 1997
Stone, D. R., ‘Imperialism and Sovereignty. The League of Nations’ Drive to Control the Global Arms Trade’, Journal of contemporary history., 2000
*Wright, J., ‘Stresemann and Locarno,’ Contemporary European history., 1995
Week 5. The Washington Conference and the Far East, 1919-39
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the reasons behind the activation of Japanese foreign policy during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and the responses to that development.
General question:
Why did Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union not play a more active part in halting Japanese aggression in China during the 1930s?
Books
*Andrews, Eric Montgomery, The writing on the wall : the British Commonwealth and aggression in the East 1931-1935
Best, Antony, Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbor : avoiding war in east Asia, 1936-41
Borg, Dorothy & Okamoto, Shumpei, Pearl Harbor as history : Japanese-American relations, 1931-1941
*Feis, Herbert, The Road to Pearl Harbor. The Coming of the War between the United States and Japan
Goldstein, Erik & Maurer, John, eds., The Washington Conference, 1921-22 : naval rivalry, East Asian stability and the road to Pearl Harbor
Haggie, Paul, Britannia at bay : the defence of the British Empire against Japan 1931-1941
Hamill, Ian, The strategic illusion : the Singapore strategy and the defence of Australia and New Zealand, 1919-1942
Haslam, Jonathan, The Soviet Union and the threat from the east, 1933-41 : Moscow, Tokyo and the prelude to the Pacific War
Iriye, Akira, Pearl Harbor and the coming of the Pacific War : a brief history with documents and essays
Iriye, Akira, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific
Lee, Bradford Adams, Britain and the Sino-Japanese war, 1937-1939 : a study in the dilemmas of British decline
Lensen, George Alexander, The damned inheritance : the Soviet Union and the Manchurian crises, 1924-1935.
Louis, William Roger, British strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939
Lowe, Peter, Britain in the Far East : a survey from 1819 to the present
*Lowe, Peter, Great Britain and the origins of the Pacific War : a study of British policy in East Asia 1937-1941
*Nish, Ian Hill, ed., Anglo-Japanese alienation, 1919-1952 : papers of the Anglo-Japanese Conference on the History of the Second World War
Nish, Ian Hill., Alliance in decline : a study in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1908-23
Sun, Youli, China and the origins of the Pacific war, 1931-1941
Tarling, Nicholas, Britain, Southeast Asia and the onset of the Pacific War [chapter 1]
Articles
Thorne, C, ‘The Shanghai Crisis of 1932: The Basis of British Policy’, The American historical review., 1970
Nish, I, ‘Japan and the Ending of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance,’ in Bourne, Kenneth & Watt, Donald Cameron, eds, Studies in international history : essays presented to W. Norton Medlicott
Callahan, R, ‘The Illusion of Security: Singapore 1919-42’, Journal of contemporary history., 1974
Thorne, C, ‘Viscount Cecil, The Government and The Far Eastern Crisis’, The historical journal., 1971
Rothwell, V., ‘The Mission of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross to the Far East 1935-1936’, The historical journal., 1975
Lowe, P., ‘Retreat from Power: British Attitudes Towards Japan, 1923-1941’ in Ion, A. & Hunt, B., eds., War and diplomacy across the Pacific 1919-1952.
Perkins, E., ‘The Non Application of Sanctions Against Japan, 1931-1932’ in Lee, D. & McReynolds, G., eds, Essays in history and international relations : in honor of George Hubbard Blakeslee
Clifford, N., ‘Britain, America and the Far East, 1937-1940. a Failure in Co-operation’, The journal of British studies., 1963
Week 6. The International Crises of 1935-6
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the impact on international alignments of the major international crises of the mid-1930s.
General question: How and why did Germany benefit from the international crises that emerged in the years 1935-36?
Books
*Alpert, Michael, A New International History of the Spanish Civil War
Baer, George W., The coming of the Italian-Ethiopian War
Balfour, Sebastian & Preston, Paul, Spain and the great powers in the twentieth century
Edwards, Jill, The British government and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
*Emmerson, J. T., The Rhineland crisis, 7 March 1936 : a study in multilateral diplomacy
Haraszti, Eva, Treaty-breakers or "Realpolitiker"? : The Anglo-German naval agreement of June 1935
Haraszti, Eva, The invaders : Hitler occupies the Rhineland
*Hardie, Frank, The Abyssinian crisis
Ion, A. Hamish & Errington, E. J., eds, Great powers and little wars : the limits of power
Kleine-Ahlbrandt, William Laird, The policy of simmering : a study of British policy during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Leitz, Christian & Dunthorn, David, J, eds, Spain in an international context 1936-1959
*Mack Smith, Denis, Mussolini’s Roman Empire
Maiolo, Joseph A., The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany, 1933-39 : a study in appeasement and the origins of the Second World War.
*Robertson, Esmonde M., Mussolini as empire-builder : Europe and Africa, 1932-36
*Stone, Glyn, Spain, Portugal, and the Great Powers, 1931-1941
Thomas, Hugh, The Spanish Civil War
Waley, Daniel, British public opinion and the Abyssinian War, 1935-6
Articles
Goldman A., ‘Sir Robert Vansittart’s Search for Italian Co-operation against Hitler’ Journal of contemporary history., 1974
Parker, R., ‘Britain, France and the Ethiopian Crisis’, English historical review., 1974
Robertson, E., ‘Hitler and Sanctions: Mussolini and the Rhineland’, European studies review., 1977
Schuker, S., ‘France and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936’, French historical studies., 1986
Stone, G., ‘Britain, Non-Intervention and the Spanish Civil War’, European studies review., 1979
Watt, D., ‘The Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936-1940’, The review of politics., 1960
Week 8: The Approach of War, 1937-9
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the international crises that resulted in the outbreak of war in 1939, and of the forces that drove them forward.
General question: What issues were at stake for the powers engaged in the conflict that erupted in September 1939?
Books
Adams, R. J., British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement 1935-39
Aster, Sidney, 1939 : the making of the Second World War
Bell, Peter, Chamberlain, Germany and Japan, 1933-4
Caputi, Robert J., Neville Chamberlain and appeasement
Cienciala, Anna, Poland and the Western powers 1938-1939 : a study in the interdependence of Eastern and Western Europe
Crozier, Andrew J., Appeasement and Germany's last bid for colonies
Douglas, Roy, In the year of Munich
Douglas, Roy, The advent of war, 1939-40
Feiling, Keith, The life of Neville Chamberlain.
Gilbert, Martin, The Roots of Appeasement
Low, Alfred D., The Anschluss movement, 1931-1938, and the great powers
May, Ernest, Knowing one's enemies : intelligence assessment before the two world wars
McDonough, Frank, Neville Chamberlain, appeasement and the British road to war
Medlicott,William N, The coming of war in 1939
Middlemas, Keith, Diplomacy of illusion : the British Government and Germany, 1937-39
Mommsen, Wolfgang and Kettenacker, Lothar, eds, The Fascist challenge and the policy of appeasement
Newman, Simon, March 1939 : the British guarantee to Poland : a study in the continuity of British foreign policy
Ovendale, Ritchie , 'Appeasement' and the English speaking world : Britain, the United States, the dominions, and the policy of 'appeasement' 1937-1939
Parker, Robert, A. C., Chamberlain and appeasement : British policy and the coming of the Second World War
Pratt, Lawrence R., East of Malta, West of Suez : Britain's Mediterranean crisis, 1936-1939
Prazmowska, Anita, Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939
Preston, Adrian, ed., General Staffs and Diplomacy Before the Second World War
Robbins, Keith, Munich 1938
Roi, Michael L., Alternative to appeasement : Sir Robert Vansittart and Alliance diplomacy, 1934-1937
Taylor, Telford, Munich : the price of peace
Thorne, Christopher G., The approach of war, 1938-1939.
Watt, Donald Cameron, How War Came. The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939
Articles
Bell, P.,‘Hitler’s War’ in Hayes, Paul, ed., Themes in modern European history 1890-1945 (London, 1992)
Haslam, J., ‘The Soviet Union and the Czech Crisis of 1938’, Journal of contemporary history., 1979, Online Journal
Neville, P., ‘Rival Foreign Office Perceptions of Germany, 1936-1939’, Diplomacy and statecraft., 2002, Online journal
Kennedy, P., ‘The Tradition of Appeasement in British Foreign Policy, 1865-1939’, British journal of international studies., 1976, EBL Article K0006
Waddington, G . ‘Hassgegner’: German Views of Great Britain in the later 1930s’, History., 1996, EBL Article W0347
Adamthwaite, A., ‘Bonnet, Daladier and French Appeasement, April-September 1938’, International relations., 1967, EBL Article A0106
Week 9. From European to World War, 1939-41 (see also various works in relevant sections of the main bibliography)
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the reasons for the escalation of a European war into a global conflict.
General question: Why was the collapse of France such a seminal moment in the development of the Second World War?
Books
Baldwin, Hanson, The crucial years, 1939-1941 : the world at war
Bell, Philip, A certain eventuality... : Britain and the fall of France
Bergamini, David, Japan's imperial conspiracy
Boog, Horst, et al, Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 6, The global war : widening of the conflict into a world war and the shift of the initiative 1941-1943
Boog, Horst, et al, Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 4, The attack on the Soviet Union
Borg Dorothy & Shumpei Okamoto, Pearl Harbor as history : Japanese-American relations, 1931-1941
Butow, Robert, Tojo and the coming of the war.
Carr, William, Poland to Pearl Harbor : the making of the Second World War
Cecil, Robert, Hitler's decision to invade Russia, 1941
Douglas, Roy, The advent of war, 1939-40
Herzog, James, Closing the open door : American-Japanese diplomatic negotiations, 1936-1941
*Hinsley, Harry, Hitler’s Strategy
Ienaga, Saburo, Japan's last war : World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945
Iriye, Akira, Pearl Harbor and the coming of the Pacific War : a brief history with documents and essays
*Iriye, Akira, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific
Jackson, Julian, The Fall of France. The Nazi Invasion of 1940
*Leach, Barry, German strategy against Russia, 1939-1941
Lukacs, John, The duel : Hitler vs. Churchill, 10 May - 31 July 1940
*Maier, Klaus, et al, Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 2, Germany's initial conquests in Europe
Schreiber, Gerhard, et al, Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 3, The Mediterranean, south-east Europe, and north Africa, 1939-1941 : from Italy's declaration of non-belligerence to the entry of the United States into the war
*Toland, John, The rising sun : the decline and fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, Hitler's war directives, 1939-1945
*Weinberg, Gerhard, Germany and the Soviet Union, 1939-1941
Articles
Schliam, A., ‘Prelude to Downfall. The British Offer on Union to France, June 1940’, Journal of contemporary history., 1974.
Zahniser, M., ‘Rethinking the Significance of Disaster. The United States and the Fall of France in 1940’, International history review., 1992.
Week 10. The Second World War, 1941-45 (see also various works in relevant sections of the main bibliography)
General objective: To enhance student understanding and appreciation of the factors which determined the fortunes of the Allies and the Axis during the Second World War.
General question: Why did the Allies win the Second World War?
Books
Bialer. Seweryn, Stalin and His Generals
*Bullock, Alan, Hitler. A Study in Tyranny
Churchill, Winston, The Second World War, vols 2-6
Gilbert, Martin, Road to victory : Winston S. Churchill 1941-45
Gilbert, Martin, Churchill : a life
Haffner, Sebastian, The meaning of Hitler
*Kershaw, Ian, Hitler 1936-45: Nemesis
Kimball, Warren, Forged in war : Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Second World War
Lensen. George, The strange neutrality : Soviet-Japanese relations during the Second World War, 1941-1945.
*Lewin, Robert, Hitler's mistakes
Lewin, Robert, Churchill as warlord
Overy, Richard, War and economy in the Third Reich
*Overy, Richard, Why the Allies won
Sainsbury, Keith, Churchill and Roosevelt at war : the war they fought and the peace they hoped to make
*Roberts, Geoffrey, Stalin's wars : from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953
Schoenfeld, Maxwell, The war ministry of Winston Churchill.
Seaton, Albert, Stalin as warlord
*Strawson, John, Hitler as Military Commander
*Wiskemann. Elisabeth, The Rome-Berlin Axis : a history of the relations between Hitler and Mussolini
Woodward, Sir Llewellyn, British Foreign Policy in the Second World War (5 Volumes)
Articles
Bartlett, C., ‘Inter-Allied Relations in the Second World War’, History., 1978
Carroll, F., ‘A Double Edged Sword. Anglo-American “Special Relations” 1936-8’, International history review., 1984
Dilks, D., ‘Allied Leadership in the Second World War’, Survey., 1975
Harbutt, F., ‘Churchill, Hopkins and the “Other Americans”. An Alternative Perspective on Anglo-American Relations 1941-45’, International history review., 1986
*Kitchen, M., ‘Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union during the Second World War’, The historical journal., 1987. EBL CC A7054
Langer, J., ‘The Harriman-Beaverbrook Mission and the Debate over Unconditional Aid to the Soviet Union, 1941’, Journal of contemporary history., 1979
*Lowenthal, M., ‘Roosevelt and the Coming of the War. The Search for United States Policy 1937-42’, Journal of contemporary history., 1981
Overy, R., ‘Hitler and Air Strategy’, Journal of contemporary history., 1980
*Overy, R., ‘Hitler’s War and the German Economy’, The economic history review., 1982
*Ross, G., ‘Allied Diplomacy in the Second World War’, British journal of international studies.1975.
Ross, G., ‘Foreign Office Attitudes towards the Soviet Union, 1941-45’, Journal of contemporary history., 1981
Sainsbury, K., ‘ “Second Front in 1942”. Anglo-American Differences over Strategy’, British journal of international studies., 1978
Schofield, B, ‘The Defeat of the U-Boats during World War Two’, Journal of contemporary history., 1981
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