Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948
Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948

Author: F. McKenzie

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-06-06

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0230554687

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This work is a path-breaking study of the changing attitudes of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Britain and the Commonwealth in the 1940s and the effect of those changes on their individual and collective standing in international affairs. The focus is imperial preference, the largest discriminatory tariff system in the world and a potent symbol of Commonwealth unity. It is based on archival research in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948
Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948

Author: Francine McKenzie

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2002-09-07

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780333980941

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This work is a path-breaking study of the changing attitudes of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to Britain and the Commonwealth in the 1940s and the effect of those changes on their individual and collective standing in international affairs. The focus is imperial preference, the largest discriminatory tariff system in the world, and a potent symbol of Commonwealth unity.

The British Commonwealth and Victory in the Second World War
The British Commonwealth and Victory in the Second World War

Author: Iain E. Johnston-White

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-28

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1137589175

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the British Commonwealth in the Second World War. Britain and its Dominions, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, formed the most durable, cooperative and interchangeable alliance of the war. Iain E. Johnston-White looks in depth at how the Commonwealth war effort was financed, the training of airmen for the air war, the problems of seaborne supply and the battles fought in North Africa. Fully one third of the ‘British’ effort originated in the Dominions, a contribution that was only possible through the symbiotic relationship that Britain maintained with its former settler-colonies. This cooperation was based upon a mutual self-interest that was largely maintained throughout the war. In this book, Johnston-White offers a fundamental reorientation in our understanding of British grand strategy in the Second World War.

Australia's Boldest Experiment
Australia's Boldest Experiment

Author: Stuart Macintyre

Publisher: NewSouth

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1742241972

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In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace and prosperity. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. At the height of his powers, Macintyre reminds us that key components of the society we take for granted – work, welfare, health, education, immigration, housing – are not the result of military endeavour but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve.

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940

Author: S. Polu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1137009322

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Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.

Insanity, Race and Colonialism
Insanity, Race and Colonialism

Author: L. Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1137318058

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Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War.

A Companion to Harry S. Truman
A Companion to Harry S. Truman

Author: Daniel S. Margolies

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 873

ISBN-13: 1118300750

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With contributions from the most accomplished scholars in the field, this fascinating companion to one of America's pivotal presidents assesses Harry S. Truman as a historical figure, politician, president and strategist. Assembles many of the top historians in their fields who assess critical aspects of the Truman presidency Provides new approaches to the historiography of Truman and his policies Features a variety of historiographic methodologies

Parties Long Estranged
Parties Long Estranged

Author: Margaret MacMillan

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780774809764

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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.

The Politics of Decline
The Politics of Decline

Author: G. Fry

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-12-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0230554458

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Britain was victorious in the Second World War, and yet thirty years later she had many of the characteristics of a defeated nation. What went wrong? The Politics of Decline sets out the assumptions of the 1940s and clinically examines the records of successive Governments as they strove to run the country in the approved manner. The I.M.F. crisis of 1976 brought these efforts to a shuddering halt. Using original sources, this book marshals the evidence to support a compellingly written interpretation of events.

Planning in Cold War Europe
Planning in Cold War Europe

Author: Michel Christian

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 3110532409

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The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes’ will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed already during the First World War in Europe and became globalized during the World Economic crisis. During the Cold War, such discussions fuelled competition between two models of economic and social organisation but they also revealed the convergences and complementarities between them. This ambiguity, so often overlooked in histories of the Cold War, represents the central issue of the book organized around three axes. First, it highlights how know-how on planning circulated globally and were exchanged by looking at international platforms and organizations. The volume then closely examines specificities of planning ideas and projects in the Communist and Capitalist World. Finally, it explores East-West channels generated by exchanges around issues of planning which functioned irrespective of the Iron Curtain and were exported in developing countries. The volume thus contributes to two fields undergoing a process of profound reassessment: the history of modernisation and of the Cold War.