This review of the Suez Crisis gives a chapter each to such key players as General Sir Gerald Templar, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir Norman Brook, the Secretary to the Cabinet and Patrick Dean, the head of the Permanent Under Secretary's department of the Foreign Office. The book incorporates 1956 releases from the Public Record under the Open Government Initiative, to reassess the role of officials and the process of policymaking, through the analysis of the activities and role of a range of players.
This review of the Suez Crisis gives a chapter each to such key players as General Sir Gerald Templar, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir No...
This book is an in-depth study of the importnace of the Empire-Commonwealth in the two decades after WWII for Britain's self-image as a great power. By studying a wide range of debates on general and specific imperial problems, the book highlights the "official mind" of decolonization - and of late imperialism.
This book is an in-depth study of the importnace of the Empire-Commonwealth in the two decades after WWII for Britain's self-image as a great power. B...
This volume examines the Anglo-Israeli relationship from early 1956 to the summer of 1958, against the wider background of the Cold War, rivalry of the superpowers and the upheavals in the Middle East. During this period the Anglo-Israeli relationship went through two major phases. The first one, from early 1956 to early 1957, was marked by growing tension in the Middle East when relations between Britain and Israel were at best cool and at times hostile. The second phase, from March 1957 to the summer/autumn of 1958, was characterized by the growing instability of pro-western states in the...
This volume examines the Anglo-Israeli relationship from early 1956 to the summer of 1958, against the wider background of the Cold War, rivalry of th...
Based on new source material available in both England and India, India's Partition examines the partition in the context of the retreat of the British Empire. The freeing of India from British rule was the result of internal forces in both countries, while the split of the subcontinent along religious lines served as a harbinger for things to come. Panigrahi argues that partition was not a foregone conclusion and was not the favoured option for most of the main parties, but rather was the result of a unique set of circumstances. An erudite exploration of the highly complex relations...
Based on new source material available in both England and India, India's Partition examines the partition in the context of the retreat of the Britis...
Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gentlemen who were amongst the first people to join the Colonial Society in 1868-69. These men included imperial officials, leading settlers, British politicians and writers, and Beasley looks at the common...
Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produce...
The nature of international diplomacy and Britain s world role changed immeasurably after the end of the First World War, and this book shows how the various men who headed the Foreign Office during the interwar years sought to operate in the shifting political and bureaucratic environments that confronted them.
British Foreign Secretaries in an Uncertain World examines the careers of each of the interwar Foreign Secretaries, including Lord Curzon, Ramsay MacDonald and Anthony Eden. Using an extensive range of primary sources both published and unpublished, official and...
The nature of international diplomacy and Britain s world role changed immeasurably after the end of the First World War, and this book shows how t...
