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This volume of essays focuses upon Britain's international and
imperial role from the mid-Victorian era through until the
immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Individual chapters by
acknowledged authorities in their field deal with a variety of
broad-ranging and particular issues, including: 'cold wars' before
the Cold War in Anglo-Russian relations; Lord Curzon and the
diplomacy of war and peace-making; air-power as an instrument of
colonial control; Foreign Office efforts to frame and influence the
historical narrative; Winston Churchill's alternative to, and the
pursuit of, policies of 'appeasement'; British responses to
conflict and regime change in Spain; the Secret Intelligence
Service and British diplomacy in East Asia'; Neville Chamberlain
and the 'phoney war'; efforts to combat American misperceptions of
Britain in wartime; and British-American differences over the
future of Italy's colonial possessions. This collection, along with
the accompanying volume covering the period after World War 2, is
dedicated to the memory of Professor Saki Dockrill.
From the Fashoda incident in 1898 to the current Blair-Jospin "entente," this book reviews one century of Franco-British relations. Friend or foe? Partner or rival? Model or counter-model? The two countries have continually wavered between two extremes. Yet, these essays show they have always had more things in common than suspected in the first place, and there has always been a strong case for cooperation.
This volume of essays focuses upon Britain's international and
imperial role from the mid-Victorian era through until the
immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Individual chapters by
acknowledged authorities in their field deal with a variety of
broad-ranging and particular issues, including: 'cold wars' before
the Cold War in Anglo-Russian relations; Lord Curzon and the
diplomacy of war and peace-making; air-power as an instrument of
colonial control; Foreign Office efforts to frame and influence the
historical narrative; Winston Churchill's alternative to, and the
pursuit of, policies of 'appeasement'; British responses to
conflict and regime change in Spain; the Secret Intelligence
Service and British diplomacy in East Asia'; Neville Chamberlain
and the 'phoney war'; efforts to combat American misperceptions of
Britain in wartime; and British-American differences over the
future of Italy's colonial possessions. This collection, along with
the accompanying volume covering the period after World War 2, is
dedicated to the memory of Professor Saki Dockrill.
From the Fashoda incident in 1898 to the current Blair-Jospin
'entente', this book reviews one century of Franco-British
relations. Friend or foe? Partner or rival? Model or counter-model?
The two countries continually wavered between two extremes. Yet, as
this collection of papers show, they have always had more things in
common than suspected in the first place, and there has always been
a strong case for cooperation.
The essays in this volume, written by leading historians and a
former British foreign secretary, survey the strategy, politics and
personalities of British peacemaking in 1919. Many of the
intractable problems faced by negotiators are studied in this
volume. Neglected issues, including nascent British commercial
interests in Central Europe and attitudes towards Russia are
covered, along with important reassessments of the viability of the
Versailles treaty, reparations, appeasement, and the long-term
effects of the settlement. This collection is a compelling and
resonant addition to revisionist studies of the 'Peace to End
Peace' and essential reading for those interested in international
history.
At the end of World War II, Britain faced enormous financial and
economic problems, made more intractable by the heavy defence
expenditure demanded by colonial presence in Asia, Africa and the
Middle East and the decision to go ahead with producing a British
atomic bomb in the light of a growing Soviet threat.This book looks
at how British defence policy has balanced the country's need to
maintain the status of an independent nuclear power with its
diminishing role in world politics, generally, concentrating on how
that policy was applied in key events such as the Korean War, the
Suez crisis of 1956 and the Falklands. It will provide a clearly
written and accessible analysis of the main currents of and
developments in British defence policy since 1945. This book is
aimed at students (including upper forms in schools, first-year
undergraduates) of politics and history and general readers.
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