This volume of essays focuses upon Britain’s international and imperial role from the mid-Victorian era through until the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Individual chapters by acknowledged authorities in their field deal with a variety of broad-ranging and particular issues, including: ‘cold wars’ before the Cold War in Anglo-Russian relations; Lord Curzon and the diplomacy of war and peace-making; air-power as an instrument of colonial control; Foreign Office effort...
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Introduction Saki Ruth Dockrill, ‘no ordinary professor’; Brian Holden Reid 1. ‘A Very Internecine Policy’: Anglo-Russian cold wars before the Cold War; T.G. Otte 2. Curzon’...
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Philip Bell, University of Liverpool, UK John Fisher, University of the West of England Brian Holden Reid, King’s College, London, UK Saul Kelly, King’s College, London...