Britain in Global Politics Volume 1 [electronic resource] : From Gladstone to Churchill / edited by C. Baxter, M. Dockrill, K. Hamilton.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137367822
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/4258
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2013.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XVII, 291 p. online resource.
Dizi
Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World, 2731-6815
Özet, vb.
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 theperiod after World War 2, is dedicated to the memory of Professor Saki Dockrill.
Konu
Great Britain __ History.
Imperialism.
World politics.
World history.
International relations.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Political History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
International Relations.
Modern History.