Churchill and empire : a portrait of an imperalist /
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| Author / Creator: | James, Lawrence, 1943- author. |
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Pegasus Books, 2014. |
| Description: | viii, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10084314 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1. 1874-1900
- 1. Jolly Little Wars: Omdurman
- 2. He'll Be Prime Minister of England One Day: A SubalternÆs Progress
- 3. A Dog with a Bone: Lieutenant Churchill's Imperial World
- Part 2. 1901-1914
- 4. An Adventurer: Questions of Character
- 5. Humbugged: The Colonial Office, 1905-1908
- 6. Tractable British Children: More Native Questions
- 7. Breathing Ozone: The Admiralty, October 1911-March 1914
- 8. These Grave Matters: The Irish Crisis, March-July 1914
- 9. The Interests of Great Britain; The Coming of War, July-August 1914
- Part 3. 1914-1922
- 10. A War of Empires: An Overview, 1914-1918
- 11. I Love this War: The Dardanelles and Gallipoli, August 1914-May 1915
- 12. A Welter of Anarchy: Churchill, the Empire and the Bolsheviks, 1919-1922
- 13. Carry on like Britons: Churchill's Russian War, 1919-1921
- 14. The Weight of the British Arm: Policing the Empire, 1919-1922
- 15. Reign of Terror: Churchill and Ireland, 1919 -1923
- 16. The Possibility of Disaster: The Near and Middle East, 153 1919-1922
- Part 4. 1923-1939
- 17. The Will to Rule: The Struggle to Keep India, 1923-1936
- 18. An Unnecessary War, Part I: The Japanese Challenge, 1931-1939
- 19. An Unnecessary War, Part II: Appeasement, 1935-1939
- Part 5. 1939-1945
- 20. A War of Peoples and Causes: Churchill as War Leader and Strategist
- 21. We Felt We Were British: The Imperial War Effort
- 22. A Disaster of the First Magnitude: Holding the Middle East, 1939-1941
- 23. Supreme Effort: Distractions, Chiefly French
- 24. Britain's Broke: Anglo-American Exchanges, 1939-1941
- 25. A Shocking Tale: The Singapore Debacle, 1941-1942
- 26. The Dark Valley: Perils and Panic, 1942
- 27. A State of Ordered Anarchy: India, 1942-1943
- 28. The Wealth of India: Subversion and Famine, 1943-1945
- 29. The Flag Is Not Let Down: Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt
- 30. Fraternal Association: America and the Future of the British Empire
- 31. Your Lofty Principles: Gains and Losses, 1945
- Part 6. 1945-1955
- 32. Abiding Power: The Empire and the Cold War, 1946-1951
- 33. Splutter of Musketry: Small Wars, 1950-1951
- 34. A Falling from Power? Atom Bombs and Arabs, 1951-1955
- 35. The Third British Empire, 1951-1955
- Envoi
- Bibliography
- Notes
