This volume throws important new light upon a pivotal period of transition in the Anglo-American relationship and sets the stage for its equally dramatic transformation during and after the Second World War.
Based upon extensive research in previously unpublished archival material on both sides of the Atlantic, for the first time this book offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the war debt problem from its origins at the end of the First World War until its final removal with the launch of Roosevelt's Lend-Lease programme in 1940-41.
This work will be of great...
This volume throws important new light upon a pivotal period of transition in the Anglo-American relationship and sets the stage for its equally dr...
Chief among the personnel at the Foreign Office is the Permanent Under-secretary, the senior civil servant who oversees the department and advises the Foreign Secretary. This book is a study of the twelve men who held this Office from 1854-1946.
Chief among the personnel at the Foreign Office is the Permanent Under-secretary, the senior civil servant who oversees the department and advises the...
The Beeching Report recommended the closure of about a third of Britain's passenger railways, a plan that went ahead despite opposition. This book examines the politics behind the programme and argues that Beeching was attempting to impose logic on railway finances and responding to the failures of public ownership.
The Beeching Report recommended the closure of about a third of Britain's passenger railways, a plan that went ahead despite opposition. This book exa...
This book shows how the Labour Party responded to electoral defeat in 1970 and to what extent its political and policy activity in opposition was directed to the recovery of power at the following general election.
This book shows how the Labour Party responded to electoral defeat in 1970 and to what extent its political and policy activity in opposition was dire...
Peter Dorey here presents the most comprehensive, in-depth and original book of the 1964-1970 labour governments published to date.
This unique account examines a wide range of political issues and makes extensive use of primary sources recently released by the Public Records Office, including previously unpublished cabinet papers, ministerial correspondence, ministers' private papers and interviews with former ministers.
Peter Dorey analyzes the policies and intra-party debates of the era and the problems which ministers faced in the context of both external...
Peter Dorey here presents the most comprehensive, in-depth and original book of the 1964-1970 labour governments published to date.
This analysis of British war policy considers alterations to the grand strategy during the last years of World War I. The argument is that war policy in this period was strongly affected by pessimism, even defeatism. In the aftermath of the defeats and disappointments of 1917, many could understand how the war could be lost, less how victory could be achieved. By the end of 1917, war policy had been revised so that it aimed less to win the war outright than to bring Germany to the conference table in a less exultant mood, whilst laying the bases for a peripheral war, essentially victorious on...
This analysis of British war policy considers alterations to the grand strategy during the last years of World War I. The argument is that war policy ...
This is the first book to tell the story of on eof the most contentious figures in Victorian and Edwardian politics: that of the independent-minded and exceptionally able Conservative politician, Sir John Eldon Gorst.
This is the first book to tell the story of on eof the most contentious figures in Victorian and Edwardian politics: that of the independent-minded an...
Health inequalities have re-emerged as a major issue in the 21st century. Yet the past history of this subject has been little understood. What causes health inequalities? How can they be tackled?
Health inequalities have re-emerged as a major issue in the 21st century. Yet the past history of this subject has been little understood. What causes...
The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been packaged and marketed as mass entertainment for a national or even international audience. This volume explores different facets of this phenomenon.
The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been ...
The papers that comprise this volume reveal how people are intent on preserving not only their wealth but culture too. The individual contributions identify the key arguments used to coax voters, whose natural sympathies might gravitate to the left, to vote for the Conservative Party en masse.
The papers that comprise this volume reveal how people are intent on preserving not only their wealth but culture too. The individual contributions id...
