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The British Empire as a World Power - Ten Studies (Hardcover)
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The British Empire as a World Power - Ten Studies (Hardcover)
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These ten studies of decisions and decision-makers analyze the
steps of the formation dance the British danced in the Middle
Eastern international system from the late 18th century to the
outbreak of the Cold War. Everything they did, they had done
before; all the decisions they took, they had already taken. When
they were not running harder in order to stand still, they turned
in ever faster circles to avoid becoming dizzy.
The essays redefine Great Britain as a world power and reinterpret
the tensions that underpinned its grand strategy during its
imperial heyday: between sea power and land power, Continental and
imperial commitment, core and periphery and centre and wing, and
between ballicism and equilibrium. They show how the empire became
a world of its own, apart from the places that made it, and
inhabited by service gentry with idiosyncratic codes of behaviour,
who hoped that empire-builidng would reward them with social
position as well as political influence.
And they show how travellingsettles the mind. The British, forever
certain that everyone they met would do as they asked, went to
their destruction in the Second World War seemingly unaware that
Americans treated them as they themselves had treated Indians,
Persians and Ottomans 150 years before.
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