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Shadow And Substance In British Foreign Policy 1895 1939
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Book Synopsis Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy 1895-1939 by : Cedric James Lowe
Download or read book Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy 1895-1939 written by Cedric James Lowe and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1984 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description
Book Synopsis Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy by : Brian J. MacKercher
Download or read book Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy written by Brian J. MacKercher and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939 by : Paul W. Doerr
Download or read book British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939 written by Paul W. Doerr and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and accessible account, Paul Doerr examines British foreign policy from the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 to the outbreak of World War Two in 1939. How did British leaders try to preserve the peace in the years after Versailles? Why did they resort to appeasement when confronted by Adolf Hitler? To what extent were British leaders limited by public opinion, economics, and global commitments? These questions and more are answered in this volume which surveys the results of the Paris Peace conference, and the crushing of the hopes of the 1920s under the impact of the Depression. British leaders are here seen trying to cope with the multiple crises of the 1930s, from Manchuria in 1931 to the final descent into war in 1939. Doerr’s survey is enhanced by detailed portraits of the leading actors and accounts of some of the famous meetings and events.
Book Synopsis Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century by : M. Murfett
Download or read book Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century written by M. Murfett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to the shaping of British foreign and defence policymaking in the twentieth century and illustrates why it's relatively easy for states to lose their way as they grope for a safe passage forward when confronted by mounting international crises and the antics of a few desperate men.
Book Synopsis British Diplomacy and the Descent into Chaos by : J. Fisher
Download or read book British Diplomacy and the Descent into Chaos written by J. Fisher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreating the diplomatic career of Jack Garnett, from 1902-1919, John Fisher reveals a fascinating individual as well as contextualizing his story with regard to British policy in the countries to which he was posted in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, during a period of rapid change in international politics and in Britain's world role.
Book Synopsis The Zionist Masquerade by : J. Renton
Download or read book The Zionist Masquerade written by J. Renton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretation of a critical chapter in the history of the Zionist-Palestine conflict and the British Empire in the Middle East. It contends that the Balfour Declaration was one of many British propaganda policies during the World War I that were underpinned by misconceived notions of ethnicity, ethnic power and nationalism.
Book Synopsis The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920-1926 by : G. Johnson
Download or read book The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920-1926 written by G. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord D'Abernon was the first British ambassador to Berlin after the First World War. This study, which challenges his positive historical reputation, assesses all the key aspects of Anglo-German relations in the early 1920s. Particular attention is paid to the reparations question and to issues of international security. Other topics include D'Abernon's relationship with the principal British and German politicians of the period and his attitude towards American involvement in European diplomacy.
Book Synopsis Servants of Diplomacy by : Keith Hamilton
Download or read book Servants of Diplomacy written by Keith Hamilton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Servants of Diplomacy offers a bottom-up history of the 19th-century Foreign Office and in doing so, provides a ground-breaking study of modern British diplomacy. Whilst current literature focuses on the higher echelons of the Office, Keith Hamilton sheds a new light on the administrative and social history of Whitehall which have, until now, been largely ignored. Hamilton's examination of the roles and actions of the Foreign Office's domestic staff is exhaustive, with close attention paid to: the keepers of the office, keepers of the papers, the carriers of the papers and the efforts made to adapt to growing technological changes. Hamilton's exhaustive analysis also focuses on the reforms of 1905-06 and the Queen's Messengers during wartime. Drawing extensively from Foreign Office and Treasury archives and private manuscript collections, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest of British diplomatic history.
Book Synopsis Deterrence, Coercion, and Appeasement by : David French
Download or read book Deterrence, Coercion, and Appeasement written by David French and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deterrence, Coercion, and Appeasement presents a compelling and original survey of British grand strategy in the inter-war period. Whereas most existing accounts privilege either diplomacy and foreign affairs, intelligence, or military affairs more narrowly, this study underlines the inexorable relationships between foreign policy, grand strategy, military force, intelligence, finance and not least, domestic politics and public opinion. Britain was the world's only global power in the inter-war period, and it confronted problems on a global scale. Policy-makers sought two goals: peace with security. They did so successfully in the 1920s, partly due to favourable circumstances that made their task relatively easy, and partly because they understood the strengths and limitations of British power and knew how to wield them. The situation deteriorated rapidly in the 1930s, however, as the international system became increasingly unfavourable to Britain. Policy-makers proved less adept than their predecessors at meeting these new challenges, partly because those challenges were more formidable, but also because they lacked the self-confidence of their predecessors, who had held high office during the most difficult years of the First World War and who lacked their understanding of how to wield the lever of international power. The study ends by providing a new and more sophisticated account of how and why Neville Chamberlain appeased the fascist powers in the late 1930s, and why Winston Churchill opposed him and eventually supplanted him in May 1940.
Download or read book The China Question written by T. G. Otte and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global study of British policy over the 'China Question' from 1894-1905, emphasizing the connections between European and overseas developments, and encompassing diplomatic, commercial, financial, and strategic factors as well as the politics of foreign policy.
Book Synopsis Transition of Power by : Brian J. C. McKercher
Download or read book Transition of Power written by Brian J. C. McKercher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses one of the least understood issues in modern international history: how, between 1930 and 1945, Britain lost its global pre-eminence to the United States. The crucial years are 1930 to 1940, for which until now no comprehensive examination of Anglo-American relations exists. Transition of Power analyses these relations in the pivotal decade, with an epilogue dealing with the Second World War after 1941. Britain and the United States, and their intertwined fates, were fundamental to the course of international history in these years. Professor McKercher's book dissects the various strands of the two powers' relationship in the fifteen years after 1930 from a British perspective - economic, diplomatic, naval and strategic.
Book Synopsis Britain's War At Sea, 1914-1918 by : Greg Kennedy
Download or read book Britain's War At Sea, 1914-1918 written by Greg Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain, memory of the First World War remains dominated by the trench warfare of the Western Front. Yet, in 1914 when the country declared war, the overwhelming expectation was that Britain’s efforts would be primarily focussed on the sea. As such, this volume is a welcome corrective to what is arguably an historical neglect of the naval aspect of the Great War. As well as reassessing Britain’s war at sea between 1914 and 1918, underlining the oft neglected contribution of the blockade of the Central Powers to the ending of the war, the book also offers a case study in ideas about military planning for ’the next war’. Questions about how next wars are thought about, planned for and conceptualised, and then how reality actually influences that thinking, have long been - and remain - key concerns for governments and military strategists. The essays in this volume show what ’realities’ there are to think about and how significant or not the change from pre-war to war was. This is important not only for historians trying to understand events in the past, but also has lessons for contemporary strategic thinkers who are responsible for planning and preparing for possible future conflict. Britain’s pre-war naval planning provides a perfect example of just how complex and uncertain that process is. Building upon and advancing recent scholarship concerning the role of the navy in the First World War, this collection brings to full light the dominance of the maritime environment, for Britain, in that war and the lessons that has for historians and military planners.
Book Synopsis The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century by : Gaynor Johnson
Download or read book The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century written by Gaynor Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the evolution of the Foreign Office in the 20th century and the way in which it has responded to Britain's changing role in international affairs. The last century was one of unprecedented change in the way foreign policy and diplomacy were conducted. The work of 'The Office' expanded enormously in the 20th century, and oversaw the transition from Empire to Commonwealth, with the merger of the Foreign and Colonial Offices taking place in the 1960s. The book focuses on the challenges posed by waging world war and the process of peacemaking, as well as the diplomatic gridlock of the Cold War. Contributions also discusses ways in which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to modernise to meet the challenges of diplomacy in the 21st century. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Contemporary British History.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of British Strategic Policy, 1919–26 by : John Robert Ferris
Download or read book The Evolution of British Strategic Policy, 1919–26 written by John Robert Ferris and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the connections between Britain's foreign, financial and military policies during the 1920s, calling for a radical reassessment of the perceptions of this critical period. The author argues that Britain did not follow a single strategic policy, but many different ones.
Book Synopsis The Foreign Office Mind by : T. G. Otte
Download or read book The Foreign Office Mind written by T. G. Otte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this pioneering approach to the study of international history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, élite perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British foreign policy between the death of Palmerston and the outbreak of the First World War. Grounded in a wide range of public and private archival sources, and drawing on sociological insights, The Foreign Office Mind presents a comprehensive analysis of the foreign service as a 'knowledge-based organization', rooted in the social and educational background of the diplomatic élite and the broader political, social and cultural fabric of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The book charts how the collective mindset of successive generations of professional diplomats evolved, and reacted to and shaped changes in international relations during the second half of the nineteenth century, including the balance of power and arms races, the origins of appeasement and the causes of the First World War.
Book Synopsis Diplomacy Before the Russian Revolution by : M. Hughes
Download or read book Diplomacy Before the Russian Revolution written by M. Hughes and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses the transformation of European diplomacy which took place at the beginning of the twentieth century. It focuses on the British and Russian diplomatic establishments during the years 1894-1917 in order to illustrate both the heterogeneity and complex nature of the 'Old Diplomacy'. The book will 'ground' discussion in a series of case-studies designed to illustrate both the benefits and the pitfalls of generalizing about a complicated process of transformation that had a range of social, political, administrative and psychological dimensions.
Book Synopsis Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement, and the British Road to War by : Frank McDonough
Download or read book Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement, and the British Road to War written by Frank McDonough and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of material, including primary sources, Frank McDonough re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement, and argues that appeasement was part of a broad consensus in British society at the time.
