British Foreign Policy from the Munich Conference to the Polish Guarantee: A Study in Imponderables

Before the year succeeding the First World War, and reaching back to the time of Pitt, the great classic enunciator of British foreign policy, historians had enjoyed the phenomenon of a mighty power whose continental foreign policy held no deep mysteries. It was a clear, pragmatic Realpolitik. England found her greatness by dominating successively larger segments of the less highly developed parts of the world. In obtaining her empire, the insular kingdom had skillfully seized the opportunities presented by continental wars. During the Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire again was obliged to lead the battle against a nation aspiring to European hegemony; a hegemony that could form a power bloc able to threaten Britain's maritime predominance, and suffer the nation of shopkeepers to trade only on continental terms.

Grantor dc:publisher

Creighton University

Year dc:date.issued

1958

Author dc:creator

• Himmelberg, Robert F.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Umscheid, Arthur G.

• World War II
• United Kingdom--History

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• A non-exclusive distribution right is granted to Creighton University and to ProQuest following the publishing model selected above.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/108115

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:cdr.creighton.edu:10504/108115