From the Boer War to the Cold War : essays on twentieth-century Europe

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From the Boer War to the Cold War : essays on twentieth-century Europe

A. J. P. Taylor ; edited with an introduction by Chris Wrigley

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Penguin, 1996

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First published by Hamish Hamilton 1995

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a collection of essays by A.J.P Taylor, on 20th-century European history.

Table of Contents

  • The rise and fall of "pure" diplomatic history
  • the traditions of British foreign policy
  • war and peace
  • moving with the times
  • economic imperialism
  • the Jameson raid
  • the Boer War
  • Milner - the man of no luck
  • hunting slim Jannie
  • prince of storytellers
  • Joseph Chamberlain
  • Balfour - odd man in
  • Shaw - the court jester
  • the man who tried to work miracles
  • the rogue elephant
  • the entente cordiale
  • the Anglo-Russian entente
  • "We want English and we won't wait"
  • a great man?
  • H. H. Asquith
  • farce before tragedy
  • Holstein - the mystery man
  • the ruler in Berlin
  • war by time-table
  • stumbling to the brink
  • back on their pedestals
  • a monument to the revolution
  • how it all began
  • voice from the dead
  • politics in the First World War
  • Lloyd George - rise and fall
  • the perfect secretary
  • a patriot for one Ireland
  • distressful country
  • saving Lloyd George's soul
  • Seebohm Rowntree - the workers' friend
  • Trotsky
  • the great antagonists
  • Mussolini - the cardboard lion
  • the Baldwin years
  • man behind the scenes
  • Leo Amery
  • too good for this world
  • a wasted life
  • Ernest Bevin
  • a socialist saint
  • Bolshevik soul in a Fabian muzzle
  • intellectual in politics
  • the road to great turnstile
  • bewitched by power
  • St Mugg of Manchester
  • thus spake Hitler
  • Hitler's seizure of power
  • Brummagem statesmanship
  • reaching for Russia
  • bombing Germany
  • boom and bombs
  • strong silent man
  • the cross of Lorraine
  • pen pals at war
  • the war of the British succession
  • to our everlasting shame
  • the Cold War
  • the Cold War spreads
  • Christ stopped at Potsdam
  • Churchill - the statesman
  • Lancashire.

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  • NCID
    BA28235037
  • ISBN
    • 0140230874
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxv, 454 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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