Britain in Global Politics, Volume 1: From Gladstone to Churchill (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230360440)

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.

Author: C. Baxter
ISBN-10: 0230360440
ISBN-13: 9780230360440
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2013
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d