Author: G. P. GoochPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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British Documents on the Origins of the War
Anglo-German tension; armaments and negotiation, 1907-12
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914: The testing of the entente, 1904-6
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914: The end of British isolation - v.2. The Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Franco-British entente
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Britain and World War One
Author: Alan G. V. SimmondsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136629971
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain’s twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other conflict that Britain had hitherto experienced. For the first time, it opened up a Home Front that stretched into all parts of the British polity, society and culture, touching the lives of every citizen regardless of age, gender and class: vegetables were even grown in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Britain and World War One throws attention on these civilians who fought the war on the Home Front. Harnessing recent scholarship, and drawing on original documents, oral testimony and historical texts, this book casts a fresh look over different aspects of British society during the four long years of war. It revisits the early war enthusiasm and the making of Kitchener’s new armies; the emotive debates over conscription; the relationships between politics, government and popular opinion; women working in wartime industries; the popular experience of war and the question of social change. This book also explores areas of wartime Britain overlooked by recent histories, including the impact of the war on rural society; the mobilization of industry and the importance of technology; responses to air raids and food and housing shortages; and the challenges to traditional social and sexual mores and wartime culture. Britain and World War One is essential reading for all students and interested lay readers of the First World War.
British Documents on the Origins of the War. 1898-1914
Author: George Peabody GoochPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Dreadnought
Author: Roger ParkinsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857737058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The years leading to World War I were the 'Age of the Dreadnought'. The monumental battleship design, first introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of naval warfare and policy. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a re-writing of the naval history of Britain and the other leading naval powers from the 1880s to the early years of World War I. The years before 1914 were characterised by intensifying Anglo-German naval competition, with an often forgotten element beyond Europe in the form of the rapidly developing navies of the United States and Japan. Parkinson shows that, although the advent of the dreadnought was the pivotal turning-point in naval policy, in fact much of the technology that enabled the dreadnought to be launched was a continuity from the pre-dreadnought era. In the annals of the Royal Navy two names will always be linked: those of Admiral Sir John 'Jacky' Fisher and the ship he created, HMS Dreadnought. This book shows how the dreadnought enabled the Royal Navy to develop from being primarily the navy of the 'Pax Britannica' in the Victorian era to being a war-ready fighting force in the early years of the twentieth century. The ensuing era of intensifying naval competition rapidly became a full-blooded naval arms race, leading to the development of super-dreadnoughts and escalating tensions between the European powers. Providing a truly international perspective on the dreadnought phenomenon, this book will be essential reading for all naval history enthusiasts and anyone interested in World War I.
Great Britain, the Dominions and the Transformation of the British Empire, 1907–1931
Author: Jaroslav ValkounPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000342948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The relations of Great Britain and its Dominions significantly influenced the development of the British Empire in the late 19th and the first third of the 20th century. The mutual attitude to the constitutional issues that Dominion and British leaders have continually discussed at Colonial and Imperial Conferences respectively was one of the main aspects forming the links between the mother country and the autonomous overseas territories. This volume therefore focuses on the key period when the importance of the Dominions not only increased within the Empire itself, but also in the sphere of the international relations, and the Dominions gained the opportunity to influence the forming of the Imperial foreign policy. During the first third of the 20th century, the British Empire gradually transformed into the British Commonwealth of Nations, in which the importance of Dominions excelled. The work is based on the study of unreleased sources from British archives, a large number of published documents and extensive relevant literature.