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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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The Round Table, the Empire/commonwealth, and British Foreign Policy
Author: The Commonwealth and International Affairs
Author: Alex MayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136964363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This book brings together the key articles from The Round Table over the last 100 years. Featuring essays written by leading figures, it provides a unique commentary on imperial/Commonwealth and international affairs.
The Round Table Movement and the Fall of the 'Second' British Empire (1909-1919)
Author: Andrea BoscoPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443869996
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
In spite of the general phobia of federalism, there is a strong federalist trend within British political culture. In three very different historical contexts, federalism inspired the action of political movements such as the Imperial Federation League, the Round Table and the Federal Union. Indeed, it was regarded as the solution to problems arising from the first signs of the possible collapse of Great Britain and its Empire. The Round Table Movement played a particularly interesting role in this regard, attempting to reverse the rapid and inexorable decline of the British Empire. It was a political organisation with roots in all the major peripheries of the Empire and almost unlimited financial resources. This volume discusses the strategies and means employed by the group in order to maintain the British Empire’s global prominence. The book’s main argument is that we did not have a “British century” – the nineteenth – and an “American century” – the twentieth – but, rather, four centuries of Anglo–Saxon supremacy, which witnessed the affirmation of the national principle – expression of the Continental political tradition – and its overcoming through its opposite, the federal principle, the expression of the insular political tradition.
The Round Table
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Round Table
Author: Round Table
Author: Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century
Author: M. MurfettPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137431490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
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.
British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922
Author: Antony BestPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351105159
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation. Based on extensive original research the book goes beyond existing accounts which concentrate on high politics, strategy and simple assertions about the two countries’ similarities as island empires. It brings into the picture cultural factors, particularly the ways in which Japan was portrayed in Britain, and ambivalent British attitudes to race and supposed European superiority which were overcome but remained difficulties. It charts how the relationship developed as events unfolded, including Japan’s wars against China and Russia, and in addition looks at royal diplomacy, where the Japanese Court came eventually to be treated as a respected equal. Overall, the book provides a major reassessment of this important subject.
South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations
Author: Vineet ThakurPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786614650
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book offers readers an alternative history of the origins of the discipline of International Relations. Conventional, western histories of the discipline point to 1919 as the year of the ‘birth of the discipline’ with two seminal initiatives – setting up of the first Chair of IR at Aberystwyth and the founding of the Institute of International Relations on the side-lines of the Paris Peace Conference. From these events, International Relations is argued to have been established as a path to create peace in the post-War era and facilitated through a scientific study of international affairs. International Relations was therefore, both a field of study and knowledge production and a plan of action. This pathbreaking book challenges these claims by presenting an alternative narrative of International Relations. In this book, we make three interconnected arguments. First, we argue that the natal moment in the founding of IR is not World War I – as is generally believed – but the Anglo Boer War. Second, we argue that the ideas, methods and institutions that led to the making of IR were first thrashed out in South Africa – in Johannesburg, in fact. Finally, this South African genealogy of IR, we show in the book, allows us to properly investigate the emergence of academic IR at the interstices of race, Empire and science.
Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10
Author: R. BrightPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137316578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography.