Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951
This volume deals with aspects of British foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Cold War in keeping with the scholarship of Dr. Zara Steiner, to whom the book is offered as a tribute. The contributors are all well-established experts in the study of diplomacy and foreign policy, and their essays cover the half century from Britain's preeminent position as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century to her relative "decline" during and after the Second World War.
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Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951
This volume deals with aspects of British foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Cold War in keeping with the scholarship of Dr. Zara Steiner, to whom the book is offered as a tribute. The contributors are all well-established experts in the study of diplomacy and foreign policy, and their essays cover the half century from Britain's preeminent position as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century to her relative "decline" during and after the Second World War.
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Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951

Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951

Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951

Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951

Overview

This volume deals with aspects of British foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Cold War in keeping with the scholarship of Dr. Zara Steiner, to whom the book is offered as a tribute. The contributors are all well-established experts in the study of diplomacy and foreign policy, and their essays cover the half century from Britain's preeminent position as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century to her relative "decline" during and after the Second World War.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521529341
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/25/2002
Series: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890 1951
Edition description: First Paperback Edition
Pages: 292
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Michael Dockrill and Brian McKercher; 2. 'A world apart': gentlemen amateurs, professional generalists Valerie Cromwell; 3. 'Experiencing the foreign': British foreign policy makers and the delights of travel Keith Robbins; 4. Arbitration: the first phase, 1870–1914 Richard Langhorne; 5. 'Only a d....d marionette'?: the influence of ambassadors on British foreign policy, 1904–1914 Keith Neilson; 6. Old diplomacy and new: the Foreign Office and foreign policy, 1919–1939 Brian McKercher; 7. The evolution of British diplomatic strategy for the Locarno Pact, 1924–1925 Eric Goldstein; 8. Chamberlain's ambassadors Donald Cameron Watt; 9. The British Foreign Office and France during the 'phoney war', September 1939–May 1940 Michael Dockrill; 10. Churchill the appeaser? Between Hitler, Roosevelt and Stalin in the Second World War David Reynolds; 11. From ally to enemy: Britain and the Soviet Union, 1941–1948 Geoffrey Warner; Biographical notes.
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