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Anglo-American relations were transformed during the First World
War. Britain was already in long-term economic decline relative to
the United States, but this decline was accelerated by the war,
which was militarily a victory for Britain, but economically a
catastrophe. This book sets out the economic, and in particular,
the financial relations between the two powers during the war,
setting it in the context of the more familiar political and
diplomatic relationship. Particular attention is paid to the
British war missions sent out to the USA, which were the agents for
much of the financial and economic negotiation, and which are
rescued here from underserved historical obscurity.
This volume gives students and researchers an insight into British
central government in 1914, how and why it altered during the war
years and what permanent changes remained when the war was over.
The war saw the scope of governmental intervention widened in an
unprecedented manner. The contributors to this book analyse the
reasons for this expansion and describe how the changes affected
the government machine and the lives of the citizens. They consider
why some innovations did not survive the coming of peace while
others permanently transformed the duties and procedures of
government.
Anglo-American relations were transformed during the First World
War. Britain was already in long-term economic decline relative to
the United States, but this decline was accelerated by the war,
which was militarily a victory for Britain, but economically a
catastrophe. This book sets out the economic, and in particular,
the financial relations between the two powers during the war,
setting it in the context of the more familiar political and
diplomatic relationship. Particular attention is paid to the
British war missions sent out to the USA, which were the agents for
much of the financial and economic negotiation, and which are
rescued here from underserved historical obscurity.
This volume gives students and researchers an insight into British
central government in 1914, how and why it altered during the war
years and what permanent changes remained when the war was over.
The war saw the scope of governmental intervention widened in an
unprecedented manner. The contributors to this book analyse the
reasons for this expansion and describe how the changes affected
the government machine and the lives of the citizens. They consider
why some innovations did not survive the coming of peace while
others permanently transformed the duties and procedures of
government.
What makes a good nurse leader or patient care manager? Nursing
Delegation and Management of Patient Care, 3rd Edition provides a
comprehensive, evidence-based guide to the skills and competencies
you need to lead effectively. Coverage includes a wide range of
management concepts, such as prioritization, delegation, and care
management in a hospital setting. To prepare you for today's
healthcare challenges, the book helps you master the staff nurse's
role in human resource management, relationship management,
diversity, and shared decision making. From noted educators
Kathleen Motacki and Kathleen Burke, this text prepares you for
success on the Next Generation NCLEX (R) exam and helps you meet
the job requirements of magnet-status hospitals. Comprehensive
coverage addresses the roles and responsibilities of the manager of
patient care position, core competencies required of nurses caring
for patients, and a wide range of management concepts that new
nurses need to know before they enter practice. Strong focus on
"management of care" includes areas in which you will be tested on
the NCLEX-RN (R) examination, such as prioritization, delegation,
and assignment. Clinical Corner and Evidence-Based Practice boxes
include real-world tips and advice on patient or client management,
as well as current research and best practices. NCLEX (R)
Examination Questions at the end of each chapter help you review
important content. Learning features in each chapter include
objectives, key terms, critical thinking case scenarios, and
application exercises. Expert author team represents years of
teaching experience in nursing leadership and management. NEW! Next
Generation NCLEX (R) (NGN) examination-style case studies at the
end of each section familiarize you to the way that content will be
tested in the new NGN exam. NEW! Leadership roles/competencies and
evidence-based practice examples are included from across the care
continuum: ambulatory care, long-term care, and community-based
care. NEW! Content on management in a culturally diverse healthcare
environment relates to both hospital staff and patients. NEW!
Additional Evidence-Based Practice boxes relate to "innovation"
topics in leadership and management. NEW! Updated organization
reflects the Magnet Recognition (2019) and Pathways to Excellence
(2016) standards, allowing you to learn the skills and competencies
that magnet status hospitals require when hiring nurses.
An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance
Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests. In this book Kathleen Burk brilliantly examines the different kinds of power the two empires have projected, and the means they have used to do it. What the two empires have shared is a mixture of pragmatism, ruthless commercial drive, a self-righteous foreign policy and plenty of naked aggression. These have been aimed against each other more than once; yet their underlying alliance against common enemies has been historically unique and a defining force throughout the twentieth century.
This is a global and epic history of the rise and fall of empires. It ranges from America's futile attempts to conquer Canada to her success in opening up Japan but rapid loss of leadership to Britain; from Britain's success in forcing open China to her loss of the Middle East to the US; and from the American conquest of the Philippines to her destruction of the British Empire. The Pax Americana replaced the Pax Britannica, but now the American world order is fading, threatening Britain's belief in her own world role.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.
1916. Contents: The True Philosophers; The Bridge at Meaux;
Recruiting Rat-Catchers; A Gun Carriage an Altar; Life Behind the
Lines; Devotion to Animals; Hunting for Generals; An Instance of
Quick Wit; At the Headquarters of General Petain; A Meeting with
Forain; Value of Women's Work; The Movies Under Fire; A
Subterranean City; Poilu and Tommy; Abbreviated French; The Brown
and Black Sons of France; At General Nivelle's Headquarters;
Rheims; At the Headquarters of the Generalissimo; and To the Glory
of the Women of France.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
1916. Contents: The True Philosophers; The Bridge at Meaux;
Recruiting Rat-Catchers; A Gun Carriage an Altar; Life Behind the
Lines; Devotion to Animals; Hunting for Generals; An Instance of
Quick Wit; At the Headquarters of General Petain; A Meeting with
Forain; Value of Women's Work; The Movies Under Fire; A
Subterranean City; Poilu and Tommy; Abbreviated French; The Brown
and Black Sons of France; At General Nivelle's Headquarters;
Rheims; At the Headquarters of the Generalissimo; and To the Glory
of the Women of France.
Most historical writing on the relations between the United States
and its European allies in the post-war period has concentrated on
the development of the Cold War and the beginnings of European
integration. An equally significant question is how relations
between an increasingly self-confident Europe and a United States
used to its leadership role developed after this period. This book
investigates the successes and failures, as well as the diversity,
that constituted both the strength and weakness of the
transatlantic alliance. It looks at crucial areas of conflict, such
as economics and trade, nuclear weapons, the language of power, and
key personalities, as well as the very concept of a special
relationship. How did Europe and the United States respond to
economic emergencies such as the 1973-4 oil crisis and how were
issues of power and control reflected in the language used by
officials to describe foreign nations and statesmen? Who controlled
the nuclear button and how did fears and feelings of inferiority
influence European-American nuclear interdependence in NATO? How
did American officials attempt to walk successfully in European
corridors of power and how did Europeans network in Washington?
What are the qualities that make relationships such as the
Anglo-American or the German-American one special and what strains
do they place on other members of the alliance?
Internationally renowned experts in their fields illuminate the
most exciting and important research currently available on the
European-American relationship and shed new light on the way the
western alliance has functioned. This important book will have wide
appeal for specialists in a number of fields: international
relations, politics, economics, and history.
This title is intended for undergraduates studying the history of
the British Isles in the 20th century. It should also be suitable
as background reading for general readers and students of
20th-century philosophy, politics, and literature. It includes
separate chapters covering the developments in Ireland and
Britain's relations with the wider world and sets events in the
British Isles within the wider context of the Cold War, assessing
its impact both internationally and domestically. It goes on to
discuss the growing impact of Europe on all aspects of life in the
British Isles.
Since 1945 Great Britain has experienced the loss of the empire, economic decline and recovery, entry into Europe, evolution into a multicultural society and devolution. In this book, six distinguished historians each take a theme and set out the fundamental nature and development of each.
In March 1976 the value of the British pound began to slide. The
slide turned into a rout and triggered an economic and political
trauma. By September confidence in the pound had collapsed. In
April 1975 the Wall Street Journal had run the headline 'Goodbye,
Great Britain, ' advising investors to get out of sterling. Now the
British Labour government under its new Prime Minister James
Callaghan was forced to seek help from the International Monetary
Fund, a familiar option for Third World countries but highly
unusual for a developed western economy. This expert new study
uncovers the roots of the most searing economic crisis of postwar
Britain. The weakness and instability of the British economy in the
mid-1970s, the consequence in part of the 1973 rise in oil prices,
raised international alarm. The US government in particular feared
economic crisis would drive Britain into a left-wing siege economy,
endangering NATO and the EEC. Anticipating the danger, the US
Treasury set out to force Britain to make major domestic policy
changes. The sterling crisis provided the opportunity. The IMF
provided the weapon. Arriving in London in November 1976, the IMF
mission announced that the price for the loan included deep cuts in
public expenditure. The consequent political crisis was fought out
in private and in public, amongst members of the British Cabinet,
the Labour Party, the Treasury and the Bank of England. It involved
the US President, Treasury and State Department, the Federal
Reserve, the German Chancellor and the Bundesbank. Burk and
Cairncross uncover the efforts of the Labour government to escape
IMF conditions. They also examine the political agenda, the loss of
economic control, therise of monetarist ideas and the change in the
climate of opinion. Juxtaposing gripping narrative with expert
analysis, the book provides surprising answers to critical
questions and reveals how the breakdown of the postwar consensus on
macro-economic management paved the way for the triumph of
Thatcherism.
This is the arresting 150-year story of one of the oldest and most
illustrious merchant banks and of the men who made it. Founded in
1838 by an American, George Peabody, Morgan Grenfell quickly became
the most important American banking house in London, and by the
turn of the century held an unrivalled position as part of the most
powerful investment bank in the world. The book chronicles its role
in financing the overseas purchases of Britain and her allies
during the First World War, in taking the lead amongst the private
London bankers in reconstructing Europe during the 1920s, and in
pioneering the new field of corporate finance. In the 1980s Morgan
Grenfell took off with a substantial rise in profits and an
extraordinarily powerful Corporate Finance Department: an epilogue
summarises recent events to the end of 1988 when it decided to exit
from securities in London and to concentrate on developing its
areas of traditional strength. Based on a wide range of original
sources, this book is unmatched as a banking history: no other book
combines the unrestricted access to the bank's archives afforded to
the author with a narrative of events up to the 1980s.
Our close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our
shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian
Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, the close
international relationship was forged only recently, preceded by
several centuries of hostility and conflict that began soon after
the first English colony was established on the newly discovered
continent. Burk, a fourth-generation Californian and a professor of
history in London, draws on her unrivaled knowledge of both
countries to explore the totality of the relationship--the
politics, economics, culture, and society--that both connected the
two peoples and drove them apart. She tells the story from each
side, beginning with the English exploration of the New World and
taking us up to the present alliance in Iraq. She reveals the real
motivations for settling North America, the factors that led to
Britain's losing the colonies, and the reasons why hawks in
Congress took the two countries to war again in 1812. Indeed, war
between Britain and the United States loomed again later in the
nineteenth century, and it took common enemies to bring them
together in the twentieth. But the anchor of the alliance was
human. Nineteenth-century British writers celebrated American
energy while scorning its vulgarity; American writers appreciated
the British sense of tradition while criticizing its aristocracy.
Yet social reformers on both sides of the ocean worked together to
end slavery and achieve female suffrage. Since 1945, the world has
watched and wondered at the close bonds of the leaders--Kennedy and
Macmillan, Reagan and Thatcher, and Bush and Blair. The first joint
history of its kind, Old World, New Worldis a vivid, absorbing, and
surprising story of one of the longest international love-hate
relationships in modern history.
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