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Guarantee of peace : the League of Nations in British policy, 1914-1925 / Peter J. Yearwood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yearwood, Peter J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- League of Nations--Great Britain--History.
- League of Nations.
- International organization.
- Security, International--History.
- Security, International.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--1910-1936.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1910-1936.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new look at the League of Nations is not an attempt to realise an idea, but as an element in the day-to-day conduct of Britain's foreign policy and domestic politics during the period 1914-25.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: The League in British Policy; 1. 'Give Pause to the Hardiest Aggressor': A Guarantee of Peace, 1914-1917; 2. 'Much More than an Organization to Prevent War': Beyond the Guarantee of Peace, 1917-1918; 3. 'The Key to the Peace was the Guarantee of the Peace': The Creation of the League, 1918-1919; 4. 'In Default of an Immediate Realization of a True League of Nations': The First Years of the League, 1919-1921; 5. 'A Genuine and Energetic League of Nations Policy': Lord Robert Cecil and the Treaty of Mutual Assistance, 1922-1923
- 6. 'Upholding the Covenant and the Public Law of Europe': The Corfu Crisis, 19237. 'The Wiser and Wider Security at which we are Ourselves Aiming': The Labour Government and the Geneva Protocol, 1924; 8. 'The Real Dividing Line between the Years of War and the Peace that is to Follow': Towards Locarno, 1924-1925; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-387) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-97851-5
- 0-19-155158-9
- 9786611978518
- OCLC:
- 922954009
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