The Times and Appeasement
The Second Phase
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10076278 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Foster (Alan Foster is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Thames Polytechnic. He has had papers published in the fields of comparative politics and political education and is currently involved in research into “The British Press and the Origins of the Cold War”), Alan Dean Foster (British Academy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 441-465 |
| Publication date | 1981-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002200948101600303 |
| OpenAlex | W2577580873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Few historians of British foreign policy in the 1930s have resisted the temptation to comment upon the role played by The Times during that decade in the support the newspaper offered for the official policy of the appeasement of Germany. Far less remarked upon has been the same newspaper's advocacy of the appeasement of the Soviet Union in the 1940s, as the harmony of the wartime Grand Alliance gave way to the discord and antagonism of the early years of the Cold War. The relative neglect of this second phase of commitment by The Times to policies of appeasement in Europe is surprising for a number of reasons, three of which I should like to pursue in this article
Appeasement · Political science · Politics · Australian History and Society · European Political History Analysis · Geology · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2020 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |