The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire
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The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire
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Author : Peter Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Release Date : 2008-05-13
The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire written by Peter Clarke and has been published by Bloomsbury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discusses the decline in the British empire's power after the second World War, and the political issues behind the rise of the United States as a world superpower.
The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire
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Author : Peter Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-07-31
The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire written by Peter Clarke and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-31 with History categories.
'I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously proclaimed his loyalty to the world-wide institution which he had served devotedly for most of his life. The majority of the British people, who believed they were fighting the war to beat the Germans and preserve the Empire, shared his view. Yet less than five years after Churchill's trenchant speech, and despite - apparently - winning the war, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? In January 1945, just before the conference at Yalta between Churchill, Stalin and Truman, where the disposition of so much of the post-war world was made, Lord Wavell, the Viceroy of India wrote in his diary: 'I wonder if the Prime Minister, who is the biggest man of the three, will still be able to assert his dominant personality. A great triumph if he can, the oldest man of the three, with the weakest hand to play.' Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyse in detail the losing hand which Britain was dealt in the last year of the war, and then to see how that hand was played over the next two years by Churchill's successors. Its originality lies in the detailed narrative which shows how military, political and economic developments bore down upon each other. It makes superb use of the copious letters and diaries now available of the major participants and many involved observers to show how decisions were taken, and of contemporary newspaper reports and contemporary witnesses to show how those decisions were received: it recreates both the geopolitics and the atmosphere of the period. Not least, it analyses dispassionately the role of the USA: how Roosevelt and his successors were determined that Britain must be sustained both during the war and after, but that the British Empire must not; and how the tension between Allied war aims, suppressed while the fighting was going on, became rapidly apparent when it stopped. The book thus also describes the short pivotal period when American influence finally took over from the British in world politics.
The Locomotive Of War
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Author : Peter Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-02-09
The Locomotive Of War written by Peter Clarke and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-09 with Law categories.
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2017 'War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, 'is a great locomotive of history.' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in 1917. Twentieth-century warfare, based on new technologies and mass armies, certainly saw the locomotive power of war geared up to an unprecedented level. Peter Clarke explores the crucial ways in which war can be seen as a prime mover of history in the twentieth century through the eyes of five major figures. In Britain two wartime prime ministers – first David Lloyd George, later Winston Churchill – found their careers made and unmade by the unprecedented challenges they faced. In the United States, two presidents elected in peacetime – Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt – likewise found that war drastically changed their agenda. And it was through the experience of war that the economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes were shaped and came to exert wide influence. When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, President Wilson famously declared: 'The world must be made safe for democracy.' This liberal prospectus was to be tested in the subsequent peace treaty, one that was to be bitterly remembered by Germans for its 'war guilt clause'. But both in the making of the war and the making of the peace the issue of guilt did not suddenly materialise out of thin air. As Clarke's narrative shows, it was an integral component of the Anglo-American liberal tradition. The Locomotive of War is a forensic and punctilious examination of both the interplay between key figures in the context of the unprecedented all-out wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45 and the broader dynamics of history in this extraordinary period. Deeply revealing and insightful, it is history of the highest calibre.
Mr Churchill S Profession
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Author : Peter Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-05-22
Mr Churchill S Profession written by Peter Clarke and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with History categories.
Looks at the Prime Minister's writing career over the course of his life, culminating in his four-volume "History of the English-Speaking Peoples."
Inglorious Empire
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Author : Shashi Tharoor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Inglorious Empire written by Shashi Tharoor and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Political Science categories.
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor 'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read' Financial Times In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift' - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry. In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.
A Short History Of The British Empire During The Last Twenty Months
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Author : Francis Plowden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1794
A Short History Of The British Empire During The Last Twenty Months written by Francis Plowden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1794 with Great Britain categories.
Understanding The British Empire
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Author : Ronald Hyam
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-20
Understanding The British Empire written by Ronald Hyam and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-20 with History categories.
A study of key themes in the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field.
Unfinished Empire
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Author : John Darwin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Unfinished Empire written by John Darwin and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with History categories.
A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.
The British Empire And Commonwealth
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Author : Martin Kitchen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1996-08-14
The British Empire And Commonwealth written by Martin Kitchen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-14 with History categories.
From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781 1997
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Author : Piers Brendon
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-10-28
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781 1997 written by Piers Brendon and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-28 with History categories.
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.