Lothian - Philip Kerr And the Quest for World Order

Informationen zum Autor David P. Billington, Jr. received a doctoral degree in British/Commonwealth history from the University of Texas at Austin (1995). He is currently working to produce and disseminate scholarship that introduces modern engineering to liberal arts students and first-year engineers through examples of historically significant innovation. Klappentext This is the story of Philip Kerr and a group of Oxford graduates that founded The Round Table ( Journal of International Affairs ) in 1910 and influenced British foreign policy over the following thirty years. As the principal thinker of the group, Kerr saw the need for a supra-national grouping and wanted to organize the British Empire into a federal superstate. The group also sought an Anglo-American alliance, and in 1939, joined a world federation movement that would help to inspire NATO after the war.Important questions raised by this group remain relevant today. Can a supra-national community impose laws and regulations on its members without its governing institutions being more fully accountable to a community-wide electorate? Can hostile nationalism be tamed with such a union. Can it reasonably exclude the United States? Zusammenfassung This is the story of Philip Kerr and a group of Oxford graduates that founded The Round Table (Journal of International Affairs) in 1910 and influenced British foreign policy over the following thirty years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Proving Grounds The Round Table Crusade, 1909-1914 The First World War and After, 1914-1921 Renewed Hopes, 1921-1930 Appeasement, 1930-1939 Ambassador, 1939-1940

Product details

• Authors: David P. Billington, David P. Jr. Billington, David P. Billington Jr.
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2006
• EAN: 9780313321795
• ISBN: 978-0-313-32179-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Contributions to the Study of; Contributions to the Study of; Contributions to the Study of World History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Politics, Law, and Government: International Relations