Wilson The Limits of Eurocentricity

Imperial British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Early Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4632-2596-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies

In The Limits of Eurocentricity, Keith Wilson argues that the British Empire did not reorient itself towards Europe at the beginningo f the twentieth century as has long been assumed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- CONTENTS (page 7)
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (page 8)
- INTRODUCTION: THE LIMITS OF EUROCENTRICITY: The Case of the British Empire 1904-14 (page 9)
- 1: PROLOGUE TO POLICY-MAKING: Sir Edward Grey and the National Review articles 1901-2 (page 25)
- 2: FOUND AND LOST IN TRANSLATION: Bertie, Cambon, Lansdowne, Delcasse and the Anglo-French ' alliance' of May 1905 (page 33)
- 3: THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE OF 1905 AND THE DEFENDING OF INDIA: the case of the worst-case scenario (page 45)
- 4: CREATIVE ACCOUNTING: the place of loans of Persia in the commencement of the negotiation of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 (page 67)
- 5: PASSING ON THE STRAITS: The Dardanelles and the Bosphorus in Anglo-Russian Relations 1904-1907 (page 115)
- 6: SIR EYRE CROWE ON THE ORIGINS OF THE CROWE MEMORANDUM OF 1 JANUARY 1907 (page 133)
- 7: THE ANGLO-FRENCH ENTENTE RE-VISITED, 1906-1914 (page 141)
- 8: HANKEY'S APPENDIX: inter-service rivalry during and after the Agadir crisis, 1911 (page 175)
- 9: UNDERSTANDING THE 'MISUNDERSTANDING' OF 1 AUGUST 1914 (page 193)
- 10: CURZON OUTWITH INDIA: a note on the lost committee on Persia, 1915-1916 (page 201)
- 11: GENERAL WILSON AND THE CHANNEL TUNNEL before and after the Great War (page 215)