The Atlantic Charter

In August 1941 Churchill and Roosevelt met in a secluded bay off the coast of Newfoundland. It was the first of their wartime meetings and in many respects the most significant. The Atlantic Charter, its result, proclaimed the two leaders' vision of a new world order, a set of principles that would govern international relations with the coming of peace. This remarkable collection of essays is the result of an international conference of American, British, and Canadian scholars held at Memorial University of Newfoundland that marked the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting. The essays discuss both the Charter's formulation and its long-term significance, and provide fascinating perspectives on the Second World War and its aftermath.

List of contents

The Atlantic Charter - Introduction: The Making of a Commemoration: The Atlantic Charter Fifty Years Later; D.Brinkley & D.R.Facey-Crowther - Commemorative Remarks at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland; The Honorable W.J.vanden Heuvel, U.S. Ambassador E.Ney & British High Commissioner B.Fall - The First Summit: FDR and the Riddle of Personal Diplomacy; T.A.Wilson - Roosevelt, the Sea, and International Security; G.Smith - The Atlantic Charter: Idea and Reality, 1942-1945; L.Gardner - The Atlantic Charter: 'With All Deliberate Speed'; W.F.Kimball - The Man Who Wasn't There: Mackenzie King, Canada and the Atlantic Charter; J.L.Granatstein - British Foreign Policy and the Churchill-Roosevelt Meeting of August 1941; D.Reynolds - The Atlantic Charter and its Charter: A Canadian's Reflections; J.Eayrs - An Eyewitness Account of the Atlantic Charter Meeting; D.Robinson - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Index

Product details

• Assisted by: Dougla Brinkley (Editor), Douglas Brinkley (Editor), Douglas G. Brinkley (Editor), David Facey-Crowther (Editor), David R. Facey-Crowther (Editor), R Facey-Crowther (Editor), R Facey-Crowther (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• EAN: 9780312089306
• ISBN: 978-0-312-08930-6
• No. of pages: 202
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 17 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 375 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 202 p.
• Series: The World of the Roosevelts; Explorations in Sociology.; The World of the Roosevelt's; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; The World of the Roosevelts; Explorations in Sociology.; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education