Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century

by Young, John W.

• ISBN13: 9780340691748
• ISBN10: 0340691743
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-27
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

This book looks at all the main phases of British foreign policy from the 1890s to the 1990s. It not only explores such major events as the Boer War, Appeasement, and the Suez Crisis, but also looks well beyond traditional diplomacy, taking in strategic, technological, economic, and ideological factors, as well as looking at such subjects as the rise of propaganda agencies and the intelligence community. The author also details specific international relations and rivalries and charts domestic influences on policy.

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations	viii	(2)
General editor's preface	x	(2)
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	1	(5)
1 Empire and isolation, 1895-1905	6	(25)
2 Ententes and Anglo-German rivalry, 1905-1914	31	(26)
3 Great War and Imperial crisis, 1914-1924	57	(31)
4 The Locarno era, 1925-1936	88	(26)
5 Appeasement and global conflict, 1937-1945	114	(27)
6 Third power, 1945-1956	141	(27)
7 Without a role? 1957-1972	168	(25)
8 Reluctantly European, 1973-1997	193	(28)
Conclusion	221	(12)
Bibliographical essay	233	(6)
Index	239