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The Words of Winston Churchill Jonathan Locke Hart

The Words of Winston Churchill By Jonathan Locke Hart

The Words of Winston Churchill by Jonathan Locke Hart


Summary

This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1933-1940 in peace and war, during the rise of Hitler, and concentrates on foreign affairs.The reader will find many parallels, some chilling, with our own times.

The Words of Winston Churchill Summary

The Words of Winston Churchill: Speeches 1933-1940 by Jonathan Locke Hart

This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1933-1940 in peace and war, during the rise of Hitler, and concentrates on foreign affairs. The study will appeal to those interested in Churchill, freedom, tyranny, diplomacy, war and conflict, democracy, politics, the 1930s, the Second World War, Britain, the English-speaking world, Canada, the United States, the British Empire and Commonwealth, Europe, France, Asia, Germany, totalitarianism, Parliament and legislative assemblies, rhetoric, language, style, speech-writing, oral and written communication, literature, history and other areas. The debate between autocracy and the tyrannical totalitarian on the one hand and democracy on the other is the debate of those times and ours. The reader will find many parallels, some chilling, with our own times. Churchill and his contemporaries have much to teach us.Churchill was key to our world history and is a key to understanding what is at stake in the world now.

About Jonathan Locke Hart

Jonathan Locke Hart received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in English and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Hart is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Member of Academia Europea, and is Chair Professor, the School of Translation Studies, Shandong University. He is also Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto; Associate, Harvard University Herbaria; and Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. In recent years, he was Core Faculty, Comparative Literature, Western University and Chair Professor of the School of Foreign Languages and Director of the Centre for Creative Writing, Literary Culture and Translation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has written over twenty books and edited others and contributed book chapters. A winner of many international awards, including two Fulbrights to Harvard, and having served on national and international committees, including Fulbright and Killam, he has written over 100 articles and essays and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), Leiden, UC Irvine and elsewhere and has given classes, talks, readings and lectures internationally.

Table of Contents

Epigraph

Preface and Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction
  2. 13 April 1933: Germany and Europe: Context of the Speeches Before Churchills Speech
  3. 13 April 1933 -- Germany and Europe: Churchills Speech
  4. 13 April 1933 --Germany and Europe: Responses to Churchills Speech
  5. Foreign Affairs, Speeches 1934-1935
  6. Speeches, 1936-1937
  7. 22 February 1938, Foreign Affairs, Speech
  8. Speeches, 1939-1940
  9. Speeches, the First Half of 1940
  10. 10. Conclusion

Index

Additional information

NPB9781032312040
9781032312040
1032312041
The Words of Winston Churchill: Speeches 1933-1940 by Jonathan Locke Hart
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-12-14
222
N/A
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