British Rearmament In The Thirties

Author : Robert Paul Shay Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871077
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Rearmament in the Thirties written by Robert Paul Shay Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a comprehensive analysis of rearmament under the Baldwin and Chamberlain governments. It reveals the primary determinants of events and provides important new information regarding the principal considerations underlying Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. The author concentrates on a problem that was of central concern to the government. For this reason, and because he draws on the recently opened Cabinet and Treasury papers at the Public Record Office in London, he is able to offer a broader view than that of the existing studies. He describes in detail the interaction of the Cabinet, Treasury, and Armed Services, and the influence of the financial and industrial communities. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robert P. Shay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783794433
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Rearmament in the Thirties written by Robert P. Shay and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P.J. Cain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317389255
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Imperialism written by P.J. Cain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A milestone in the understanding of British history and imperialism, this ground-breaking book radically reinterprets the course of modern economic development and the causes of overseas expansion during the past three centuries. Employing their concept of 'gentlemanly capitalism', the authors draw imperial and domestic British history together to show how the shape of the nation and its economy depended on international and imperial ties, and how these ties were undone to produce the post-colonial world of today. Containing a significantly expanded and updated Foreword and Afterword, this third edition assesses the development of the debate since the book’s original publication, discusses the imperial era in the context of the controversy over globalization, and shows how the study of the age of empires remains relevant to understanding the post-colonial world. Covering the full extent of the British empire from China to South America and taking a broad chronological view from the seventeenth century to post-imperial Britain today, British Imperialism: 1688–2015 is the perfect read for all students of imperial and global history.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Rearmament and the Treasury, 1932-1939 written by G. C. Peden and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300274963
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How States Think written by John J. Mearsheimer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international politics, for only if states are rational can scholars and policymakers understand and predict their behavior. John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato argue that rational decisions in international politics rest on credible theories about how the world works and emerge from deliberative decision‑making processes. Using these criteria, they conclude that most states are rational most of the time, even if they are not always successful. Mearsheimer and Rosato make the case for their position, examining whether past and present world leaders, including George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, have acted rationally in the context of momentous historical events, including both world wars, the Cold War, and the post–Cold War era. By examining this fundamental concept in a novel and comprehensive manner, Mearsheimer and Rosato show how leaders think, and how to make policy for dealing with other states.

Author : R. J. Q. Adams
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721011
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935-39 written by R. J. Q. Adams and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book historian R.J.Q. Adams examines the policy of appeasement--so frequently praised as realistic and statesman-like in its day and commonly condemned as wrong-headed and even wicked in ours. Exciting and thoroughly accessible, this work explains the motivations and goals of the principal policy-makers, including Chamberlain, Lord Hailfax, and Sir John Simon, as well as those of the chief critics: Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and others.

Author : T. G. Otte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107198852
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830-1960 written by T. G. Otte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reshapes the discourse surrounding the nature of British global power in this crucial period of transformation in international politics.

Author : Matthew Powell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137544171
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1940-1943 written by Matthew Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of tactical air power in Britain between 1940 and 1943 through a study of the Royal Air Force’s Army Co-operation Command. It charts the work done by the Command during its existence, and highlights the arguments between the RAF and Army on this contentious issue in Britain. Much is known about the RAF both in the years preceding and during the Second World War, particularly the exploits of Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands, yet the existence of the RAF’s Army Co-operation Command is little-known. Through extensive archival research, Matthew Powell maps the creation and work of the RAF’s Army Co-operation Command through an analysis of tactical air power developments during the First World War and inter-war periods, highlighting the debates and arguments that took place between the Air Ministry and the War Office.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113946292X
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms, Economics and British Strategy written by G. C. Peden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.

Author : Alan Allport
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101974699
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain at Bay written by Alan Allport and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From statesmen and military commanders to ordinary Britons, a bold, sweeping history of Britain's entrance into World War II—and its efforts to survive it—illuminating the ways in which the war permanently transformed a nation and its people “Might be the single best examination of British politics, society and strategy in these four years that has ever been written.” —The Wall Street Journal Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict’s first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles pressing questions such as whether the war could have been avoided, how it could have been lost, how well the British lived up to their own values, and ultimately, what difference the war made to the fate of the nation. In answering these questions, he reexamines our assumptions and paints a vivid portrait of the ways in which the Second World War transformed British culture and society. This bracing account draws on a lively cast of characters—from the political and military leaders who made the decisions, to the ordinary citizens who lived through them—in a comprehensible and compelling single history of forty-six million people. A sweeping and groundbreaking epic, Britain at Bay gives us a fresh look at the opening years of the war, and illuminates the integral moments that, for better or for worse, made Britain what it is today.