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Lothian Philip Kerr and the Quest for World Order
David P. Billington
Book Code: GM2179
ISBN: 0-313-32179-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32179-5
264 pages
Praeger Security International Academic Cloth
Publication: 5/30/2006
List Price: $129.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World History
Series Number: 111
Reviews:
  • Conclusion
    —Notes
  • Billington's study, thoroughly informed by the Lothian papers, builds effectively on the wide corpus of recent scholarship, offering incisive judgements while mobilizing some new evidence on lingering controversies. In short, this is now the political biography to read on Lothian, whose career touched on many of Britian's central imperial and international engagements in the first half of the twentieth century.
    —The International History Review     June 2007
Description: This is the story of Philip Kerr and a group of Oxford graduates that founded The Round Table (Journal of International Affairs) in 1910, and influenced British foreign policy over the following thirty years. As the principal thinker of the group, Kerr saw the need for a supra-national grouping and wanted to organize the British Empire into a federal superstate. The group also sought an Anglo-American alliance, and in 1939, joined a world federation movement that would help to inspire NATO after the war. Important questions raised by this group remain relevant today. Can a supra-national community impose laws and regulations on its members without its governing institutions being more fully accountable to a community-wide electorate? Can hostile nationalism be tamed with such a union. Can it reasonably exclude the United States?
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Proving Grounds
  • The Round Table Crusade, 1909-1914
  • The First World War and After, 1914-1921
  • Renewed Hopes, 1921-1930
  • Appeasement, 1930-1939
  • Ambassador, 1939-1940
LC Card Number: 2006008229
LCC Class: DA574
Dewey Class: 327
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