Zbyněk Zeman and Antonín Klimek
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205838
- eISBN:
- 9780191676802
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205838.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter introduces Edvard Beneš as a foreign minister during the rise of the Czechoslovak Republic, and as the second president during the fall at Munich. Beneš's person attracted journalists ...
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This chapter introduces Edvard Beneš as a foreign minister during the rise of the Czechoslovak Republic, and as the second president during the fall at Munich. Beneš's person attracted journalists and writers, particularly from writers of memories rather than from historians. There exists a full-length biography of Beneš in Czech. One of his severest critics hinted that Beneš was not a democrat by nature. Beneš thought of politics as a scientific pursuit, and approached politics with a significant resilience. Beneš was slow in coming to terms with the changing international circumstances, and he did not informed his countrymen about the true extent of change that they were to experience.Less
This chapter introduces Edvard Beneš as a foreign minister during the rise of the Czechoslovak Republic, and as the second president during the fall at Munich. Beneš's person attracted journalists and writers, particularly from writers of memories rather than from historians. There exists a full-length biography of Beneš in Czech. One of his severest critics hinted that Beneš was not a democrat by nature. Beneš thought of politics as a scientific pursuit, and approached politics with a significant resilience. Beneš was slow in coming to terms with the changing international circumstances, and he did not informed his countrymen about the true extent of change that they were to experience.
Peter Hart
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208068
- eISBN:
- 9780191677892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208068.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines the Volunteers of the I.R.A., looking at the type of people who joined and why. Most official British commentators regard the I.R.A. as being a bad lot recruited from the lowest ...
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This chapter examines the Volunteers of the I.R.A., looking at the type of people who joined and why. Most official British commentators regard the I.R.A. as being a bad lot recruited from the lowest classes. With the guerilla warfare and widespread killing, dirt was a constant theme of the descriptions. The Volunteers were considered dirty, ragged, and ‘a scrubby-looking lot of corner boys’. Most of the opinions against the I.R.A. were an outgrowth of deep-rooted prejudices: those of the English against the Irish, Protestant against Catholics, townspeople against countrymen, among many others. Upper-middle-class or upper-class people almost never joined the I.R.A. The belief that that these were ‘persons of no consequence’ was based not just on class, but on age as well. They were considered to be ‘young upstarts’.Less
This chapter examines the Volunteers of the I.R.A., looking at the type of people who joined and why. Most official British commentators regard the I.R.A. as being a bad lot recruited from the lowest classes. With the guerilla warfare and widespread killing, dirt was a constant theme of the descriptions. The Volunteers were considered dirty, ragged, and ‘a scrubby-looking lot of corner boys’. Most of the opinions against the I.R.A. were an outgrowth of deep-rooted prejudices: those of the English against the Irish, Protestant against Catholics, townspeople against countrymen, among many others. Upper-middle-class or upper-class people almost never joined the I.R.A. The belief that that these were ‘persons of no consequence’ was based not just on class, but on age as well. They were considered to be ‘young upstarts’.
