Author: Paul W. Schroeder
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 940
ISBN-13: 9780198206545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the only modern study of European international politics to cover the entire timespan from the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 to the revolutionary year of 1848.
Author: Chris Wrigley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1351737058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title was first published in 2000: A.J.P. Taylor (1906-90), one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, initially established his reputation by his work in diplomatic history. This included his magisterial The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (1954) and The Origins of the Second World War (1961), both of which have remained in print. This collection brings together a rich selection of his essays and reviews in international history, only one of which (on Trieste) has been reprinted before. The collection includes many examples of his most lively writing, often controversial, yet usually full of insight.
Author: Alan John Percivale Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roy Bridge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1317867912
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book illuminates, in the form of a clear, well-paced and student-friendly analytical narrative, the functioning of the European states system in its heyday, the crucial century between the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years later. In this substantially revised and expanded version of the text, the author has included the results of the latest research, a body of additional information and a number of carefully designed maps that will make the subject even more accessible to readers.
Author: Bruce King
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780195656183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Norman Rich
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This survey of the foreign relations of the great powers is essentially a straightforward diplomatic history: an attempt to describe how statesmen conducted foreign policy, how they dealt with crisis situations, and how they succeeded or failed to resolve them.
Author: T. C. W. Blanning
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2001-01-11
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780192854261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'a superb volume, complete with maps, and tells the story of a continent from the 18th century to the present day.' -Irish Times
Author: Paul Bew
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2007-08-16
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 0191518662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The French revolution had an electrifying impact on Irish society. The 1790s saw the birth of modern Irish republicanism and Orangeism, whose antagonism remains a defining feature of Irish political life. The 1790s also saw the birth of a new approach to Ireland within important elements of the British political elite, men like Pitt and Castlereagh. Strongly influenced by Edmund Burke, they argued that Britain's strategic interests were best served by a policy of catholic emancipation and political integration in Ireland. Britain's failure to achieve this objective, dramatised by the horrifying tragedy of the Irish famine of 1846-50, in which a million Irish died, set the context for the emergence of a popular mass nationalism, expressed in the Fenian, Parnell, and Sinn Fein movements, which eventually expelled Britain from the greater part of the island. This book reassesses all the key leaders of Irish nationalism - Tone, O'Connell, Butt, Parnell, Collins, and de Valera - alongside key British political leaders such as Peel and Gladstone in the nineteenth century, or Winston Churchill and Tony Blair in the twentieth century. A study of the changing ideological passions of the modern Irish question, this analysis is, however, firmly placed in the context of changing social and economic realities. Using a vast range of original sources, Paul Bew holds together the worlds of political class in London, Dublin, and Belfast in one coherent analysis which takes the reader all the way from the society of the United Irishman to the crisis of the Good Friday Agreement.
Author: Zara Steiner
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 1248
ISBN-13: 019161355X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the most disputed events of these tumultuous years. Steiner underlines the far-reaching consequences of the Great Depression, which shifted the initiative in international affairs from those who upheld the status quo to those who were intent on destroying it. In Europe, the l930s were Hitler's years. He moved the major chess pieces on the board, forcing the others to respond. From the start, Steiner argues, he intended war, and he repeatedly gambled on Germany's future to acquire the necessary resources to fulfil his continental ambitions. Only war could have stopped him-an unwelcome message for most of Europe. Misperception, miscomprehension, and misjudgment on the part of the other Great Powers leaders opened the way for Hitler's repeated diplomatic successes. It is ideology that distinguished the Hitler era from previous struggles for the mastery of Europe. Ideological presumptions created false images and raised barriers to understanding that even good intelligence could not penetrate. Only when the leaders of Britain and France realized the scale of Hitler's ambition, and the challenge Germany posed to their Great Power status, did they finally declare war.