The Politics of Continuity: British Foreign Policy and the Labour Government, 1945-46 - Couverture rigide

Saville, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0860914569 ISBN 13 : 9780860914563

Editeur : Verso Books, 1993

Synopsis

This original and lucid book examines the foreign policy of the British Labour government in the aftermath of the Second World War. It exposes Britain's complicity in the creation of the Cold War and emphasizes the continuity between Labour's policies and those of Churchill's coalition government, underscoring the political influence exercised by senior members of the Foreign Office.

Drawing on substantial new research, Saville focuses on the role of Ernest Bevin and his differences with Clement Atlee, particularly with regard to Middle East. Countering the widely held view that Bevin sought accommodation with the Soviet Union, he reveals Labour's Foreign Secretary as a fervent ideologue, wholly in agreement with the deep-seated anti-Sovietism of his permanent officials. Saville moves beyond the 'revolutionist' American scholarship of the 1960s and 70s to show th2 Foreign Office, under Bevin's generalship, vigorously encouraging and then collaborating with the Americans in the pursuit of Cold War policies.

The Politics of Continuity opens new avenues in the post-war diplomatic record. It will create a wide-ranging debate among historians and prove to be necessary work of reference for all those interested in international relations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Saville is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Hull. For a quarter of a century he was joint editor of the Socialist Register and is joint editor of the Dictionary of Labour Biography. His recent books include 1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement (1987) and The British Labour Movement: A Commentary (1988). He is a vice-president of the Labour History Society, president of the Oral History Society, and a former chairman of the Economic and Social History Committee of the original Social Sciences Research Council.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860914569
• ISBN 13: 9780860914563
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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