The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization

by Boyce, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780230302433
• ISBN10: 0230302432
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalizationis the first academic study, based upon multi-archival research, to challenge the standard narrative of interwar history. It re-opens fundamental debates on the role of economics, political ideologies and racism in shaping the course of events that led from one World War to the next, and explains, for the first time, why the world economic and political systems simultaneously broke down between the wars. Explaining the direction of the causal relationship within this dual crisis, the book yields a new understanding of these events and their relativity to our present globalized world. The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalizationraises profound questions abut the responsibility of Britain, the United States and the agents of international commerce and finance for the breakdown of the Versilles settlement after the First World War, the collapse of globalization, and events leading to the Second World War.

Author Biography

Robert Boyce taught International History at the London School of Economics, UK, for many years as well as at the University of Toronto, Canada, and the Institute dEtudes Politiques in Paris, France. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Maison des Sciences de lHomme at Dijon, France.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Liberal Powers, Peace-making and International Security, 1914-19
The Emasculation of International Security after the Great War
The Limits of Globalisation
The Crisis Begins, 1927-29
The Crisis, September 1929 - April 1931
In the Eye of the Storm, May 1931 – February 1932
The Collapse of the Postwar Order, 1932 - 34
Conclusion: From the Great Interwar Crisis to the Present
Bibliography