Britain's Imperial Air Routes 1918-1939
Author | : Robin Higham |
Publisher | : Fonthill Media |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2017-01-20 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robin Higham |
Publisher | : Fonthill Media |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2017-01-20 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : Wilfried Feldenkirchen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2019-04-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429679793 |
First published in 1999, this volume aims to reflect on the changing structure, experience and aspirations of European business as it approaches the Millennium, including chapters in issues including business scandals in the Weimar Republic, the evolution of management consultancies in Portugal and Spain and the British Public Sector. The yearbook exploits these changes by serving as a forum for debate in Europe and aims to bring work on individual countries to a wider, European audience. Responding to the challenge of globalization, cooperation within a single European market and an increasing interest in corporate governance and environmental issues, the yearbook broadens to include socio-political issues along with stimulating new types of scholarship among European business historians and new preservation strategies by business archivists.
Author | : Robert Millward |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2002-04-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521892568 |
In this 1998 book, experts in British industrial history analyse the causes of nationalisation in the 1940s.
Author | : Matthew Hinds |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-02-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857727591 |
The story of Anglo-American relations in Saudi Arabia during the Second World War has generally been viewed as one of discord and hegemonic rivalry, a perspective reinforced by a tendency to consider Britain's decline and the ascent of US power as inevitable. In this engaging and timely study, Matthew Hinds calls into question such assumptions and reveals a relationship that, though hard-nosed, functioned through interdependence and strategic parity. Drawing upon an array of archives from both sides of the Atlantic, Hinds traces the flow of key events and policies as well as the leading figures who shaped events to show why, how and to what extent the allies and Saudi Arabia became 'mixed up together', in the words of Winston Churchill. Perhaps most fundamentally, Britain and the United States were enthralled by the promise of Saudi Arabia serving as an auxiliary to Allied strategy. Obtaining King Ibn Saud's tacit support or more specifically, his 'benevolent neutrality', meant having vital access, not only to the country's prospective oil reserves, but to its prized geographic location, its centrality within Islam and, as international politics increasingly followed an anti-colonial path, to its credentials as a sovereign and independent Arab state. Given what was at stake, London and Washington saw their engagement in Saudi Arabia as seminal; a genuine blueprint for how to forge a lasting 'Special Relationship' throughout the Middle East. Hinds' bold new interpretation is a vital work that enlarges our understanding of the Anglo-American wartime alliance.
Author | : Margaret MacMillan |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780774809764 |
This book brings together recent and original work to illuminate comparisons and contrasts between two former colonies of the British Empire. The contributors include some of the top names in history and political science in Canada and Australia. They cover the entire twentieth century and examine different aspects of Canadian-Australian relations, including trade, civil aviation, and military, constitutional, imperial, and diplomatic relations. The comparisons include Aboriginal rights, nation building, middle powers, and attitudes toward the Empire. This timely volume is well situated in the field of comparative studies, a new and growing area. It will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign affairs, the British Commonwealth and its dismantling, constitutional history, and international relations.
Author | : Erik Benson |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781585445004 |
To understand Yerex's remarkable career, Erik Benson focuses on the uniqueness of the entrepreneur's background, one that enabled him to empathize with both Great Britain and the United States and to foster working relationships with these rivals. Yerex's dealings with the two countries shed new light on the development of aviation in the 1930s and 1940s, at a time when Pan American ruled the skies of the western hemisphere, when revolutions and coups rocked governments, and when fortunes waited to be made and lost.
Author | : Gordon Pirie |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-02-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1526118475 |
The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature.
Author | : Jacob Norris |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199669368 |
A study of Palestine in the early twentieth century that takes a step back from the intricacies of the Arab-Zionist conflict, focusing instead on the country's position within the broader history of empire and anti-colonial resistance.
Author | : Richard S. Grayson |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780714647586 |
Restoring and maintaining peace within war-torn societies is a relatively new task for the United Nations. This book examines the options for the UN in the use of force to secure peace, and the extent to which peacekeeping can be effectively extended to coerce warring factions. A combination of internationally distinguished academics and new scholars at the forefront of research are represented, making an important contribution to the debate about the role of international military operations in the maintenance of international peace and security.
Author | : Dr Richard S Grayson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317958055 |
This is a study of Austen Chamberlain's term of office as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary from 1924-29. It is argued that Chamberlain's priority was a two-stage policy in Western Europe, which aimed at pacifying both France and Germany, as well as encouraging the League of Nations.