Pioneering study which charts how the collective mindset of Britain's diplomatic élite reacted to and shaped nineteenth-century British foreign policy.
Pioneering study which charts how the collective mindset of Britain's diplomatic élite reacted to and shaped nineteenth-century British foreign policy.
Pioneering study which charts how the collective mindset of Britain's diplomatic élite reacted to and shaped nineteenth-century British foreign policy.
Pioneering study which charts how the collective mindset of Britain's diplomatic élite reacted to and shaped nineteenth-century British foreign policy.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- 1 Centenaries, self-historicization and the mobilization of the masses -- 2 America and the King Alfred millenary commemorations -- 3 An Entente Centenary: c…
For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth and early twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present. Centenary celebrations helped to revive, perpetuate and reinforce public perceptions of historical eve…