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The Commonwealth and International Affairs
The Round Table Centennial Selection
Coordinator: May Alex
Language: EnglishSubject for The Commonwealth and International Affairs:
Keywords
Secretary Of State; round; Round Table; table; Geoffrey; philip; Commonwealth Secretariat; kerr; Garfield; reginald; Commonwealth; coupland; British Commonwealth; movement; Round Table Conferences; peter; Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group; lyon; Southern Rhodesia; milners; UN; Rhodes Trust; Round Table Group; Round Table Movement; Young Men; People’s Progressive Party; Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit; Commonwealth Update; Reforms Commissioner; Emeka Anyaoku; Beit Lecturer; Asian Members; EEC Country; Souls College; Harold Butler
Publication date: 05-2010
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 04-2015
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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The Round Table journal (now subtitled The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs) first appeared in 1910. The journal carried a number of articles recognised both by contemporaries and by historians as highly influential in the making of Commonwealth policy, including constitutional reform in India, the independence of southern Ireland, the League of Nations mandates system and the United Nations trusteeship system, British policy in East Asia, the building of the Anglo-American alliance, appeasement, decolonisation, and the transition to a new, multipolar Commonwealth.
This book brings together excerpts from some of the key articles published over the last one hundred years and features leading figures including;
- Lionel Curtis and John Dove on Ireland, leading to the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the creation of the Irish Free State,
- T.E. Lawrence on the Middle East, a key influence on post-1919 state creation in the Arab Middle East,
- Philip Kerr on India, galvanizing attempts at constitutional reform in British India.
This selection provides a unique commentary on imperial/Commonwealth and international affairs and makes available to a new generation of scholars and students some of the articles now acknowledged as key influences in the evolution of British and Commonwealth policies.
This collection of essays is intended as a companion volume to The Contemporary Commonwealth: An assessment 1965 - 2009, edited by James Mayall, marking the centenary of The Round Table.
Foreword. Introduction Part 1: The Prewar Empire (1910-14) Part 2: The First World War and its Aftermath (1914-21) Part 3: The Interwar Empire/Commonwealth (1921-39) Part 4: The Second World War and its Aftermath (1939-49) Part 5: The Era of Decolonization (1949-65) Part 6: The Modern Commonwealth. Index of Articles. Notes on Authors. Bibliography. Index
Alex May is Research Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a project of the University of Oxford, and has been Honorary Secretary/Treasurer of the Round Table since 1997. He is the author of Britain and Europe Since 1945 (1999), and the editor of The Round Table, the Empire/Commonwealth and British Foreign Policy (with Andrea Bosco, 1997), and Britain, the Commonwealth and Europe (2001). The text of his Oxford D.Phil. thesis of 1995, 'The Round Table, 1910-66', will shortly be available from the Round Table's website, http://www.moot.org.uk.
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