Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939
Author: Paul W. DoerrPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719046728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939: 1919. Secret proceedings of the Supreme Council of the Paris Peace Conference (July-Oct.)
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
British Foreign Policy since 1870
Author: Will PodmorePublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462835775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This book survey Britain ́s foreign policy since 1870. Conventional accounts stress the rulers ́ benevolent rhetoric: I present the evidence that refutes this superficial, liberal view. Britain ́s economy is the key to understanding its foreign policy: capitalism causes a conflict-ridden foreign policy. The rulers ́ focus has been on seizing profits from abroad, for which they have sacrificed the welfare of the British people. British governments - Conservative, Liberal and Labour alike - have represented the tiny minority who own the means of production, and have opposed the great majority who have to work for a living. The ruling class ́s external focus has also damaged relations with other countries and helped to produce the two recurring types of war - wars between rival empires and wars against national liberation.
British Responses to Genocide
Author: Amy E. GrubbPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000548333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book examines British responses to genocide and atrocity in the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I. The authors analyze British humanitarianism and humanitarian intervention through the advice and policies of the Foreign Office and British government in London and the actions of Foreign Officers in the field. British understandings of humanitarianism at the time revolved around three key elements: good government, atrocity, and the refugee crises; this ideology of humanitarianism, however, was challenged by disputed policies of post-war politics and goals regarding the Near East. This resulted in limited intervention methods available to those on the ground but did not necessarily result in the forfeiture of the belief in humanitarianism amongst the local British officials charged with upholding it. This study shows that the tension between altruism and political gain weakened British power in the region, influencing the continuation of violence and repression long after the date most perceive as the cessation of WWI. The book is primarily aimed at scholars and researchers within the field; it is a research monograph and will be of greatest interest to scholars of genocide, British history, and refugee studies, as well as for activists and practitioners.
Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945, from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry
Author: Germany. Auswärtiges AmtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
British Foreign Affairs
Author: British Information Services. Reference DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
British Decolonisation, 1918-1984
Author: Richard DavisPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443853240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Few subjects have aroused more controversy in recent years than that of empire, and that of the British Empire in particular. Few other subjects are of greater importance to today’s world. How the British Empire was created and maintained, and the impact it had on both the colonised and the colonisers, have been the source of long-running and heated debates amongst historians, politicians and in the media. For several decades it has been analysed from numerous different perspectives, providing a wide range of differing interpretations. Over recent years, new studies have extended the scope of imperial history into previously ignored fields that have significantly added to our understanding. Imperial history can, therefore, no longer be regarded as the exclusive realm of the political historian, or the reserve of an essentially British approach. The British Empire was complex. Each of the far-flung components that made it up had its own particularities. At various times and in various places it took on different forms and had different meanings. It affected people across the globe in a multitude of ways. This inevitably produces a multi-facetted picture. The large number of actors, in Britain and in the colonised world, who played a part in its history adds to this impression. As a consequence, it is difficult to come up with one, all-encompassing, history of the British Empire. All these aspects of the British Empire are apparent in the story of how it ended. What precisely decolonisation was, how it came about, and what it meant for the British and for those who gained their independence, varied considerably from one part of the Empire to another, and from one period to another. How these changes came about, how independence was won across the colonial world, and how it was resisted, are dealt with here across a selection of different case studies. Understanding how the British Empire collapsed tells us a great deal about what this Empire was and about its legacy in today’s world.
British Foreign Policy in the Second World War
Author: Ernest Llewellyn WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: The aftermath of Munich, Oct. 1938-March 1939
Author: Germany. Auswärtiges AmtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description