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Diplomacy and world power : studies in British foreign policy, 1890-1950

Title: Diplomacy and world power : studies in British foreign policy, 1890-1950 / edited by Michael Dockrill and Brian McKercher.
Publication: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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xix, 271 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Zara Steiner's contribution to the history of modern British foreign policy has shown successfully the connexion between the attitudes of those who have been responsible for British diplomacy and the policies they produced.
Thus, in honouring Dr Steiner, the contributors to this volume explore a number of case studies involving personality and foreign policy: examining the attitudes of those who made or influenced British diplomatic strategies; how these attitudes were shaped by and, occasionally, shaped events; and how British foreign policy in a few instances was fashioned as a result.
The contributors have concentrated their efforts on the years 1890-1950, the period of Dr Steiner's interest. This is an important juncture in both international and British history, when Britain's position as the only world power was undermined by the nature of the first and second world wars, and when British diplomats and others had to make adjustments to changed domestic and external conditions in war and peace.
The volume therefore adds to the explanations about how and why the transition in Britain's status as a Great Power occurred in the way it did.

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Contents

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

ISBN

0521462436

LCCN

95008659

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Columbia University Libraries