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Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Knights Errant and True Englishmen written by Jeremy Black and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Knights Errant and True Englishmen written by Jeremy Black and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 : 9781904607090
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Knights Errant and True Englishmen written by Jeremy Black and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, all written by scholars who have recently carried out original research in the field. The essays deal with a variety of aspects of the formulation and execution of Britain's foreign policy at a crucial period in Britain's emergence as a major international power.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Knights Errant and True Englishment written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139461877
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837 written by Brendan Simms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 120 years (1714–1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many respects, and diluted her sense of insular apartness. The geopolitical focus of Britain was now as much on Germany, on the Elbe and the Weser as it was on the Channel or overseas. At the same time, the Hanoverian connection was a major and highly controversial factor in British high politics and popular political debate. This volume was the first systematically to explore the subject by a team of experts drawn from the UK, US and Germany. They integrate the burgeoning specialist literature on aspects of the Personal Union into the broader history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Never before had the impact of the Hanoverian connection on British politics, monarchy and the public sphere, been so thoroughly investigated.
Author : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786727225
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Three Victories and a Defeat written by Brendan Simms and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of European alliances that enabled Britain to keep the continental balance of power in check while dramatically expanding her own empire. These alliances sustained the nation through the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War. But in 1776, Britain lost the American continent by alienating her European allies. An extraordinary reinterpretation of British and American history, Three Victories and a Defeat is a masterwork by a rising star of the historical profession.
Author : Hamish Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317893549
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 written by Hamish Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system. H.M. Scott demonstrates how the well-known and dramatic events of these decades - the emergence of Russia and Prussia; the three partitions of Poland; the continuing retreat of the Ottoman Empire; the unprecedented territorial expansion of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, halted by the final defeat of Napoleon - were part of a wider process that created the modern great power system, dominated by Europe's five leading states. Enhanced by maps and a chronology of principal events, this comprehensive and accessible textbook is fully up-to-date in its coverage of recent scholarship. Unlike many other treatments of this period, Scott extends his beyond the French Revolution of 1789 in order to demonstrate how events both before and after this great upheaval merged to produce the central political development in modern European history. This book addresses the crucial phase in the emergence of the modern international system which, with the subsequent addition of the USA, Japan and Russia, has prevailed until the present day.
Author : Emma Vincent Macleod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429841906
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book A War of Ideas written by Emma Vincent Macleod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The responses of British people to the French Revolution has recently received considerable attention from historians. British commentators often expressed a sense of the novelty and scale of European wars which followed, yet their views on this conflict have not yet attracted such thorough examination. This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the attitudes of various groups of British people to the conflict during the 1790’s: the Government, their supporters and their opponents inside and outside Parliament, women, churchmen, and the broad mass of British public opinion. It presents the debate in England and Scotland provoked by the war both as the sequel to the French Revolution and as a distinct debate in itself. Emma Vincent Macleod argues that contemporaries saw this conflict as one of the first since the wars of religion to be significantly shaped by ideological hostility rather than solely by a struggle over strategic interests.
Author : Edward Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135277699
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The British Empire as a World Power written by Edward Ingram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ten studies analyse 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.
Author : Jennifer Mori
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317891880
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Britain in the Age of the French Revolution written by Jennifer Mori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new survey looks at the impact in Britain of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic aftermath, across all levels of British society. Jennifer Mori provides a clear and accessible guide to the ideas and intellectual debates the revolution stimulated, as well as popular political movements including radicalism.
Author : Professor Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113536933X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book America Or Europe? written by Professor Jeremy Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Britain's position dramatically improve between 1739 and 1763? In this study, the author examines a pivotal period in Britain's rise to power status that culminated in the defeat of France in the struggle for North America in the Seven Years' War. The central themes in this book are the choices between war and peace, America of Europe. Due weight is given to the period of the War of the Austrian Succession 1740-48, when British policy was far from successful and when the major theme was concern with European developments, and to the years of inter-war diplomacy, when the agenda was once again dominated by European developments, specifically the attempt to create a continental system of collective security to off set the Franco-Prussian alliance. Focusing on the diplomacy of the period rather than, as with the majority of works, emphasizing the dominance of a struggle with France for colonial and maritime superiority, new light is thrown on British foreign policy in this period.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897227
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book A History of Diplomacy written by Jeremy Black and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black investigates how a form of courtly negotiation and information-gathering in the early modern period developed through increasing globalization into a world-shaping force in twenty-first-century politics. The monarchic systems of the sixteenth century gave way to the colonial development of European nations—which in turn were shaken by the revolutions of the eighteenth century—the rise and progression of multiple global interests led to the establishment of the modern-day international embassy system. In this detailed and engaging study of the ever-changing role of international relations, the aims, achievements, and failures of foreign diplomacy are presented along with their complete historical and cultural background.
Author : Hamish M. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521842273
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Cultures of Power in Europe During the Long Eighteenth Century written by Hamish M. Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the forces which shaped politics and culture in Germany, France and Great Britain in the eighteenth century.
Author : Philip J. Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199988536
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Mercantilism Reimagined written by Philip J. Stern and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of collected essays takes a new approach to this problematic subject by rethinking its broad foundations. From a variety of perspectives, its authors situate mercantilism against the backdrop of wider transformations in seventeenth-century Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic, from the scientific revolution to the expansion of empire.--
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134229712
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Continental Commitment written by Jeremy Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent debates about British political and military strategies, derived in particular from dissension about Britain’s relationship with Europe and from disagreement over the Iraq war, has led to a greater awareness of the problematic nature of the concept of ‘national interests’. This major new work delivers a long view of this issue, its twin strands are captured by an assessment both of the Continental commitment and British interventionism in the 18th Century. The extent to which Britain’s rise to superpower status in America and Asia was related to the Continental connection, and her Hanoverian interests, is a central theme of this study, as is the relationship between the domestic position of the Crown and its interests as Electors of Hanover. The issue of Continental interventionism opens up the question of how alliances generate their own pressures, at the same time that they are supposed to help overcome challenges; while also indicating how the domestic support for alliances shifts, creating its own dynamics that in turn affect the international dimension. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, British foreign policy, British history and war and conflict studies.
Author : Philip Woodfine
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780861932306
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Britannia's Glories written by Philip Woodfine and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The War of Jenkins Ear' examined for the first time in a full-length study, looking at the vitality of popular politics and the inner workings of Parliament during the time. This first full-length study of the 1739 war with Spain, the so-called `War of Jenkins' Ear', looks at both the Spanish and the British side of disputes arising from illicit British trading in the Spanish ports of the Caribbean and the sometimes brutal depredations committed by the Spanish ships licensed to suppress it. It considers the domestic contexts in both countries, including the pressures which bore upon unpopular monarchs and their ministers; in particular, the author demonstrates the vigour with which opposition newspapers vaunted the heritage of British naval power: if ministers only had the political will, it was supposed, Britannia's glories would be revived and she would humble the cowardly popish foreigners of Spain and France. In examining foreign policy in the closing years of the long-lived Walpole ministry, light is also shed on the inner workings of `high politics', and new evidence offered on the development of the cabinet and the important role played by George II. The author concludes that the breakdown of complex and delicate Anglo-Spanish negotiations over the American trade was due not just to British popular outcry over Jenkins' ear but had a variety of causes, including entrenched national principles, and the interplay of individual personalities. Dr PHILIP WOODFINE teaches in the Department of Humanities at the University ofHuddersfield.
Author : Andrew C. Thompson
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843832416
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Britain, Hanover and the Protestant Interest, 1688-1756 written by Andrew C. Thompson and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new examination of the links between religion and politics in the early eighteenth century, showing how the defence of protestantism became a major plank in foreign policy. Religious ideas and power-politics were strongly connected in the early eighteenth century: William III, George I and George II all took their role as defenders of the protestant faith extremely seriously, and confessional thinking was of major significance to court whiggery. This book considers the importance of this connection. It traces the development of ideas of the protestant interest, explaining how such ideas were used to combat the perceived threats to the European states system posed by universal monarchy, and showing how the necessity of defending protestantism within Europe became a theme in British and Hanoverian foreign policy. Drawing on a wide range of printed and manuscript material in both Britain and Germany, the book emphasises the importance of a European context for eighteenth-century British history, and contributes to debates about the justification of monarchy and the nature of identity in Britain. Dr ANDREW C. THOMPSON is Lecturer in History, Queens' College, Cambridge.
