The Quest for National Efficiency: a Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899-1914
Author: Geoffrey Russell Searle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780520017948
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Author: Geoffrey Russell Searle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780520017948
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Published: 1971
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G. R. Searle
Publisher: Humanity Books
Published: 1989-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781573923347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Searle's book, first published in 1971, provides a lucid and important illumination of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain focused through the theme of "competitiveness" and possible national "decline" which permeated so many fields of human activity and policy. This is not a political history of the traditional type nor a "history of ideas" study, but, rather, an examination of the interaction between the worlds of politics and political ideas. At this level The Quest for National Efficiency makes a significant contribution to the historiographical debate about Britain's decline during the twentieth century. But there is a second way of reading Dr. Searle's work: as, to use Barbara Tuchman's phrase, a "distant mirror." The period under review is the decade following the death of Queen Victoria yet the narrative, while set against very different circumstances, provides many "reflections" of dilemmas familiar to readers in the early 1990s. There are many similarities between Edwardian Britain, the Britain of the 1960s when the book was written, and the contemporary United States. The parallels are not labored, but their existence adds an extra dimension to this fascinating study. It is for this reason that the republication of The Quest for National Efficiency will be seen as relevant.
Author: Searle
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1971-09
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780631129400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sheila Faith Weiss
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0520336607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
Author: Neville Kingsley Meaney
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 1920899170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralia and World Crisis, 1914-1923 is the second volume in a pioneering two-volume history of Australian defence and foreign policy. It is based on wide-ranging research in collections of personal and official papers in Australia, Britain, the United States and Canada. Linking up with the first volume, The Search for Security in the Pacific, it offers a new and path-breaking understanding of Australia's relations with the world from the outbreak of the First World War to the making of peace in Europe and the Pacific. This study explores a number of fundamental issues that shaped Australia's response to the world in this era, such as race and culture, geopolitics and security, domestic divisions and ideas of loyalty, and the philosophies and personalities of the chief policy makers. From the outset of this global conflict Australia was involved in a 'hot war' in Europe against Germany and its allies, and in a 'cold war' in the Pacific against Japan. The British Australians, for reasons of sentiment and interest, supported the Mother Country, but even as they did so they were deeply concerned about Japan's ambitions. As a result Japan figured prominently in Australia's approach to the war and the peace. Indeed for the Australians the 'cold war' did not come to an end until the Washington Conference of 1921-2, when Japan with the other Pacific powers agreed to limit naval building and to respect existing territories in China and the Pacific. In tracing out this story, the book throws light on many particular aspects of the 'hot' and 'cold' wars. They include the origins of Asian studies in Australia, intelligence gathering, the secret service and loyalty leagues, the fear of Japan in the conscription controversy, Irish Catholics and the Anglo-Irish War. The labour movement and the Bolshevik revolution, the ideological clash of the American President and the Australian Prime Minister over peacemaking, the visit of the Prince of Wales, 'Britishness' and the failure of the idea of Greater Britain all influenced the development of Australia's defence and foreign policy. At the end of the book there is an attempt to provide an assessment of Australia's leadership through these testing times and to point out the significance of this experience for a later generation of Australia policy makers.
Author: Julia Stapleton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780719055119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Political intellectuals and public identities in Britain since 1850 will be of interest to scholars and advanced undergraduates in the fields of political thought and British intellectual and cultural history. It will also be of interest to a wider community of writers and commentators on the politics of English and British national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jennifer Karns Alexander
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2008-03-03
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780801886935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, 2010 Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of Technology Efficiency—associated with individual discipline, superior management, and increased profits or productivity—often counts as one of the highest virtues in Western culture. But what does it mean, exactly, to be efficient? How did this concept evolve from a means for evaluating simple machines to the mantra of progress and a prerequisite for success? In this provocative and ambitious study, Jennifer Karns Alexander explores the growing power of efficiency in the post-industrial West. Examining the ways the concept has appeared in modern history—from a benign measure of the thermal economy of a machine to its widespread application to personal behaviors like chewing habits, spending choices, and shop floor movements to its controversial use as a measure of the business success of American slavery—she argues that beneath efficiency's seemingly endless variety lies a common theme: the pursuit of mastery through techniques of surveillance, discipline, and control. Six historical case studies—two from Britain, one each from France and Germany, and two from the United States—illustrate the concept's fascinating development and provide context for the meanings of, and uses for, efficiency today and in the future.
Author: James T. Kloppenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 557
ISBN-13: 0195053044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comparative study of ideas and politics in France, Germany, the US, and Great Britain between 1870 and 1920.
Author: S. Ravi Rajan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0199277966
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