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Angleterre Ou Albion Entre Fascination Et Repulsion
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Book Synopsis Angleterre ou Albion, entre fascination et répulsion by : Gilbert Millat
Download or read book Angleterre ou Albion, entre fascination et répulsion written by Gilbert Millat and published by Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une interrogation collective sur la perception de l'identité nationale britannique, de l'apogée de la puissance industrielle de la Grande-Bretagne à la consécration de son déclin, tel était l'objectif du colloque organisé à l'Université Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3, en octobre 2004. Cette double analyse de l'évolution de l'image du Royaume-Uni mêle interprétations autochtones et regard de l'autre, en l'occurence l'ennemi héréditaire et néanmoins allié hexagonal. Les réflexions diachroniques, regroupées au sein de cet ouvrage bilingue, procèdent essentiellement d'approches politiques, culturelles de de l'histoire des représentations. Outre l'Angleterre, le pays de Galles, l'Irlande du Nord et l'Ecosse, les dimensions impériales et européennes sont prises en compte, sans oublier les relations avec les Etats-Unis. A partir du XVIIIe siècle, l'exaltation de l'insularité, du protestantisme et d'un patriotisme fondamentalement anti-français cimentèrent le sentiment national britannique. Après Waterloo, l'antagonisme franco-britannique sévit principalement sur les fronts économique et diplomatique, dans un contexte de rivalité des empires. Au XXe siècle, les périodes où s'affirme une anglophilie jamais exempte de méfiance alternent avec des accès d'anglophobie. Cependant, si le stéréotype de la "perfide Albion" survit dans l'univers de la satire graphique, il s'estompe à mesure que l'arrimage continental du Royaume-Uni se confirme. -4e de couv.
Book Synopsis Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing by : Thomas Tracy
Download or read book Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing written by Thomas Tracy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wild Irish Girl, the powerful Irish heroine's marriage to a heroic Englishman symbolizes the Anglo-Irish novelist Lady Morgan's re-imagining of the relationship between Ireland and Britain and between men and women. Using this most influential of pro-union novels as his point of departure, the author argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps out the genealogy of this development, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870s. The author's model enables him to elaborate the ways in which gender ideals are specifically contested in fiction, the discourses of political debate and social reform, and the popular press, for the purpose of defining not only the place of the Irish in the union with Great Britain, but the nature of Britishness itself.
Book Synopsis La France et l'Angleterre au XIXe siècle by : Sylvie Aprile
Download or read book La France et l'Angleterre au XIXe siècle written by Sylvie Aprile and published by creaphis editions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les contributions rassemblées interrogent les relations franco-britanniques au XIXe siècle sous des angles variés. Des travaux d'histoire politique, sociale et culturelle enrichissent une réflexion sur la circulation, les détournements, les appropriations des idées, mais aussi les contresens.
Book Synopsis Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister by : Andrew Holt
Download or read book Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister written by Andrew Holt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the Prime Minister in British foreign policy decision-making has long been noted by historians. However, while much attention has been given to high-level contacts between leaders and to the roles played by the premiers themselves, much less is known about the people advising and influencing them. In providing day-to-day assistance to the Prime Minister, a Private Secretary could wield significant influence on policy outcomes. This book examines the activities of those who advised prime ministers from Winston Churchill (1951–55) to Margaret Thatcher during her first administration (1979–83). Each chapter considers British foreign policy and assesses the influence of the specific advisers. For each office holder, particular attention is paid to a number of key themes. Firstly, their relationship with the Prime Minister is considered. A strong personal relationship of trust and respect could lead to an official wielding much greater influence. This could be especially relevant when an adviser served under two different leaders, often from different political parties. It also helps to shed light on the conduct of foreign policy by each premier. Secondly, the attitudes towards the adviser from the Foreign Office are examined. The Foreign Office traditionally enjoyed great autonomy in the making of British foreign policy and was sensitive to encroachments by Downing Street. Finally, each chapter explores the role of the adviser in the key foreign policy events and discussions of the day. Covering a fascinating 30-year period in post-war British political history, this collection broadens our understanding of the subject, and underlines the different ways influence could be brought to bear on government policy.
Book Synopsis The Cuban Missile Crisis by : Len Scott
Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis written by Len Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts. In October 1962, humankind came close to the end of its history. The risk of catastrophe is now recognised by many to have been greater than realised by protagonists at the time or scholars subsequently. The Cuban missile crisis remains one of the mostly intensely studied moments of world history. Understanding is framed and informed by Cold War historiography, political science and personal experience, written by scholars, journalists, and surviving officials. The emergence of Soviet (later Russian) and other national narratives has broadened the scope of enquiry, while scrutiny of the operational, especially military, dimensions has challenged assumptions about the risk of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal brings together world leading scholars from America, Britain, France, Canada, and Russia to present critical scrutiny of authoritative accounts and to recast assumptions and interpretations. The book aims to provide an essential guide for students of the missile crisis, the diplomacy of the Cold War, and the dynamics of historical interpretation and reinterpretation. Offering original ideas and agendas, the contributors seek to provide a new understanding of the secrets and mysteries of the moment when the world went to the brink of Armageddon. This book will be of great interest to students of the Cuban missile crisis, Cold War Studies, nuclear proliferation, international history and International Relations in general.
Book Synopsis Right/left/right Revolving Commitments by : Jennifer Birkett
Download or read book Right/left/right Revolving Commitments written by Jennifer Birkett and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late 1920s, the European mood had changed from postwar disenchantment, nihilism or apolitical hedonism to a more serious engagement with a politics of crisis, economic collapse and social and cultural disintegration. The emergence of fascist movements throughout Europe, the failure of the social democracies to respond adequately to their threat, and the consequent rise to influence of an authoritarian, Moscow-dominated Communism found the European intelligentsia in ferment in the early 1930s. The deeply ambiguous mood of the years preceding Hitlerâ (TM)s accession to power in 1933 led many writers to espouse authoritarian and radical allegiances of Left or Right, or to vacillate between extremes. In the mid 1930s, a shift in Comintern policy to class collaboration strategies against fascism appeared to be vindicated by the election of Popular Front governments in Spain and France. The Spanish Civil War and Hitlerâ (TM)s seizure of Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938 put such strategies under strain, until they were destroyed by the Nazi-Soviet Pact and the partition of Poland in late 1939. The Second World War saw the final dissolution of the old Left consensus, bringing new disillusions, or the hardening of commitments to rigid dogmas, or renunciation of political commitment altogether. Extending from the origins of the European crisis in the late 1920s to its consequences in the aftermath of World War II, this collection of essays examines the complex and contradictory responses in British and French intellectual and cultural circles to that key political moment of the twentieth century, when, as Leon Trotsky put it in 1932, history was poised like a ball on top of a pyramid, and â oethe slightest impact [could] cause it to roll down either to the left or to the right.â It offers a review of the radical shifts and reversals of political allegiance over this period in France and Britain, seeks to explore some of the tensions and confusions in cultural and everyday life that produced them, and presents a comparative account of writers who have shaped subsequent understanding of these two momentous decades.
Book Synopsis France - Grande-Bretagne by : William Boyd
Download or read book France - Grande-Bretagne written by William Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harold Wilson and European Integration by : Oliver J. Daddow
Download or read book Harold Wilson and European Integration written by Oliver J. Daddow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Wilson's direction of the second British application to join the EEC us ripe for reinterpretation. With new and exciting material now available in the Public Record Office and abroad, this is an extremely propitious moment to reconsider Wilson's motivations, and to contextualise them in light of evidence on foreign policy-making contained in the official record.
Download or read book On Curiosity written by Franck Cochoy and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What draws us towards a shop window display? What drives us to grab a special offer, to enter the privileged circle of premium newspaper subscribers, to peruse the pages of an enticing magazine? Without doubt, it is curiosity - that essential force of everyday action which invites us to break from our habits and to become transported beyond our very selves. Curiosity (whether healthy or unhealthy) is one of the favourite tricks of market seduction. Capturing a public - attracting the attention of a reader, seducing a customer, meeting the expectations of a user, persuading a voter ... - often requires the construction of a set of technical devices that can play upon people's inner motivations. Cochoy invites us to take a sociological trip into these cabinets of curiosity, accompanied throughout by Bluebeard, a fairy tale that is both a model of the genre and a pure curiosity machine. At once a work of history and economic anthropology, the book meticulously analyses the devices designed by markets to arouse, excite, and sustain curiosity: a window display, practices of 'teasing', packaging, bus shelters, mobile internet technologies, to name but a few. In the Bettencourt and Strauss-Kahn affairs and the Wikileaks controversy, Cochoy also uncovers the work of investigative journalism and its attention-grabbing 'scoops', revealing the secrets of the revealers of secrets. Available in English for the first time, this major work will arouse readers' curiosity over the course of its unusual and colourful journey. By the end, now better informed and more cautious, they will be able to identify the traps of which they are the target. So long as curiosity is kept at bay, at least!
Book Synopsis The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by : George Otto Trevelyan
Download or read book The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay written by George Otto Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The history of Protestantism by : James Aitken Wylie
Download or read book The history of Protestantism written by James Aitken Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800 by : S.A.M. Adshead
Download or read book Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800 written by S.A.M. Adshead and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reinterprets the rise of consumerism in terms of interaction between Europe and China 1400-1800. In particular, it examines the intellectual foundations of consumerism in food, dress, shelter, utilities, information and symbolism. It highlights consumerism as an expression of both rationality and freedom and indicates the constructive role it has played in the formation of the modern world. Particular use is made of comparisons between developments in Europe and China to differentiate both.
Book Synopsis Wagner as I Knew Him by : Ferdinand Praeger
Download or read book Wagner as I Knew Him written by Ferdinand Praeger and published by London ; New York : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1892 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Napoleon, for and Against by : Pieter Geyl
Download or read book Napoleon, for and Against written by Pieter Geyl and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Britain, France and the Entente Cordiale Since 1904 by : A. Capet
Download or read book Britain, France and the Entente Cordiale Since 1904 written by A. Capet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gathers many of the best-known names in the field of Anglo-French relations and provides an authoritative survey of the field. Starting with the crucial period of the First World War and ending with the equally complex question of the second Iraq War, the study has an emphasis on British perceptions of the Entente.
Download or read book Viceregalism written by H. Kumarasingham and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the Crown has performed as Head of State across the UK and post war Commonwealth during times of political crisis. It explores the little-known relationships, powers and imperial legacies regarding modern heads of state in parliamentary regimes where so many decisions occur without parliamentary or public scrutiny. This original study highlights how the Queen’s position has been replicated across continents with surprising results. It also shows the topicality and contemporary relevance of this historical research to interpret and understand crises of governance and the enduring legacy of monarchy and colonialism to modern politics. This collection uniquely brings together a diverse set of states including specific chapters on England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Brunei, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, Australia, Tuvalu, and the Commonwealth Caribbean. Viceregalism is written and conceptualised to remind that the Crown is not just a ceremonial part of the constitution, but a crucial political and international actor of real importance.
Download or read book Winston Churchill written by Richard Toye and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill is a renowned historical figure, whose remarkable political and military career continues to enthral. This book consists of short, highly readable chapters on key aspects of Churchill's career. Written by leading experts, the chapters draw on documents from Churchill's extensive personal papers as well as cutting–edge scholarship. Ranging from Churchill's youthful statesmanship to the period of the Cold War, the volume considers his military strategy during both World Wars as well as dealing with the social, political and economic issues that helped define the Churchillian era. Suitable for those coming to Churchill for the first time, as well as providing new insights for those already familiar with his life, this is a sparkling collection of essays that provides an enlightening history of Churchill and his era.
