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War in Spain : Appeasement, Collective Insecurity, and the Failure of European Democracies Against Fascism.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Jorge, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain Ser.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction and acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1 The League of Nations faces the progressive crisis of the interwar period
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2 The deceiving calm of Lake Léman: Manchuria, Abyssinia, the Rhineland
  • A dangerous precedent
  • Impunity before the aggression and collapse of the system of collective security
  • Mussolini attacks, London tolerates, and Hitler begins his trials of progressive conquest
  • Notes.
  • Chapter 3 The abandonment of the Spanish Republic by the European democracies
  • From the intervention of the Fascist countries to the non-intervention of the democracies
  • From French fears to British prejudices
  • The weakness of the democracies and the abandonment of multilateralism
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4 The consolidation of the War in Spain
  • The violation of the rules of the international playing field
  • Mexico: legal force and political coherence in the face of the interwar crisis
  • The Rome-Berlin Axis takes shape.
  • From the consolidation and violation of non-intervention to Soviet aid
  • The defense of Madrid
  • What Eden and Delbos demanded: the Battle of Guadalajara and the evidence of Italian aggression
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5 Negrín and the conception of an international war
  • From Nazi-Fascist aggressiveness (Malaga, Guernica, Almería) to the failure of non-intervention
  • From the British inclination toward Italy in Nyon to the French feint toward Spain
  • President Negrín takes the floor at the Palais des Nations
  • Chile: a manifest enemy for the Spanish Republic in Geneva.
  • The impossibility of separating Mussolini from Hitler ... and Paris from London
  • The arrival of Halifax and Bonnet: a double blow to finish off the Republic abroad
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6 The resistance of Negrín, between Nazi expansionism and appeasing alternatives
  • From the Battle of Ebro to a functional resistance
  • Negrín's Thirteen Points
  • Tensions and discredit in Geneva
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7 Appeasement/non-intervention/appeasement on the road to a new world war
  • The withdrawal of the International Brigades and the fall of Catalonia.
  • The Munich Agreement and the Soviet switch in the road toward a new world war
  • The end of the League of Nations and of the Spanish Republic
  • Notes
  • Conclusions
  • The collapse of collective security and the failure of the League of Nations
  • The failure of the democracies to confront Fascism: between appeasing interests and the farce of non-intervention
  • Subject Index.

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