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.
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy will become the standard work on this crucial subject - and an extremely enjoyable one. Reviews: 'This is a brilliant and beautifully written history.
The Struggle for Supremacy in Germany, 1859-1866
Richard Bourke, 'Edmund Burke and international conflict', in Ian Hall and Lisa Hill (eds.), British international thinkers from Hobbes to Namier (Basingstoke, 2009), pp. 91–116. P. J. Marshall and John A. Woods (eds.) ...
A Struggle for Supremacy?: Great Britain, the United States and Kuwaiti Oil in the 1930s
In a powerful analysis drawn from two decades of high-level experience in both government and business, Jeffrey E. Garten shows that the greatest threat to America's national security may well emerge from our reluctance to recognize how the ...
Robert H. Jackson, published this book while serving as Attorney General of the United States. In it, Jackson traces the rise and fall of the influence of the Supreme Court...
... struggle to impose one dominant vision of what Iraq is and who Iraqis are on the whole political field.74 As Dodge argues, the power of Bourdieu's approach is seen when exploring how 'competition for dominance within a field shape both ...
This work focuses on the economic challenges the American economy has met during the post-World War II era, and on the new challenges--represented notably by the competing economies of Japan, Germany, and the entire European union--that ...
... revolution would arise outside the borders of the USSR.” Ibid., doc. 452, pp. 582–3. 125 Haslam, The Soviet Union, p. 224. 126 Hugh Ragsdale, “The Soviet Position at Munich Reappraised: The Romanian Enigma,” in Marsha Siefert (ed.), ...
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