Jonathan Schneer
Forfatter af The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Jonathan Schneer is professor of modern British history at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
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Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (Studies in Imperialism) (1999) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
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- Schneer, Jonathan
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- 1948-08-09
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- Dr. Jonathan Schneer, who received his BA from McGill University in 1971 and his PhD from Columbia University in 1978, is the modern British historian at Georgia Tech in the School of History and Sociology. He is a co-editor of two books, and the author of six more, including London 1900; The Imperial Metropolis, The Thames: England's River and most recently The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict which won a 2010 National Jewish Book Award. He has published articles in leading scholarly journals and collections of essays. He was a founding member of the Radical History Review and served as its book review editor for seven years. He also served for many years on the editorial board of Twentieth Century British History. He is a member of the advisory board of the London Journal. He has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and from numerous Oxford and Cambridge colleges. In 2003 he was the Visiting Senior Research Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford. At Georgia Tech he teaches modern British and modern European history to undergraduate and graduate students. His book about Winston Churchill's War Cabinet will be published by Basic Books in the US in April, 2015 and by Oneworld Press in the UK in March, 2015.
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1. Glossary of names - pag. ix
2. Introduction - pag. xvii
3. Prologue - pag. xxi
PART I: MAKING A WAR CABINET
4. CHAPTER 1 - Challenging the Prime Minister - pag. 3
5. CHAPTER 2 - Finding a War Prime Minister - pag. 25
PART II: CHIRCHILL AND HIS MINISTERS OF WAR
6. CHAPTER 3 - Testing the War Cabinet - pat. 47
7. CHAPTER 4 - The Months of Greatest Crisis - pag. 61
8. CHAPTER 5 - Shaping the War Cabinet - pag. 83
9. CHAPTER 6 - The War Cabinet at Work - pag. 95
10. CHAPTER 7 - Spearhead od the Left - pag. 115
11. CHAPTER 8 - Coping with Mr. Cripps - pag. 137
12. CHAPTER 9 - The Cat That Walked Alone - pag. 155
13. CHAPTER 10 - The Impact of Professor Beveridge - pag. 179
14. CHAPTER 11 - The "Cocky Cockney" and the Debate over Postwar Britain - pag. 195
PART III - SUNDERING THE WAR CABINET
15. CHAPTER 12 - Chruchill on the Downslope - pag. 215
16. CHAPTER 13 - Aftershock - pag. 231
17. Coda - pag. 251
18. Acknowledgments - pag. 265
19. Notes - pag. 267
20. Bibliography - pag. 303
21. Index - pag. 309… (mere)