From Empire to International Commonwealth: A Biography of Lionel Curtis

ISBN-13: 9780198126164 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 384 str.

Deborah Lavin

Opis

This is the first biography of Lionel Curtis, a highly influential figure in international affairs throughout the first half of the twentieth century. He was instrumental in extending self-government to the 'new South Africa' in 1910, India in 1916, and Eire after 1921. He worked to associate the Commonwealth with America in 1918 and towards a united Europe in 1948. He was founder of the Round Table, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Oxford Society.

Recenzje

This is an excellent book. Deborah Lavin is conspicuously fair and weighs her subject's strengths and weaknesses with elegant dispassion...an important contribution to imperial history, yet contrives at the same time strikingly to illuminate the infinite and bizarre complexity of human nature.