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Shaw, A. G. L. (ed.), Great Britain and the Colonies 1815-65, 1970.

Steiner, Zara,

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Gooch, John,

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Howard, Michael

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Fielding, S. et al., England Arise! The Labour Party and Popular Politics in the

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Hyam, Ronald, Empire and Sexuality, 1990.

Koss, Stephen,

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Lalumia, Matthew, 'Realism and anti-aristocratic sentiment in Victorian depictions of

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Mangan, J. A.,

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MacKenzie, John M.,

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Roger, (eds.), Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. IV The Twentieth

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Pugh, M.,

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Shannon, Richard, The Crisis of Imperialism 1865-1915

Summers, Anne, 'Militarism in Britain before the Great War' History Workshop,

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Beloff, Max, Imperial Sunset: Volume I: Britain's Liberal Empire 1897-1921, 1969.
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Howard, Michael, The Continental Commitment: The Dilemma of British Defence

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Nish, Ian, Alliance in decline: a study of Anglo-Japanese relations 1908-23, 1972.

Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War,

Popplewell, Richard, Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the

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Robbins, Keith, Sir Edward Grey, 1971.

Semmel, Bernard, Liberalism and Naval Strategy

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Strandmann (eds), The coming of the First World War

Thornton, A. P., The Imperial Idea and its Enemies: A Study in British Power, 1959.

Turner, J., British Politics and the Great War: Coalition and Conflict 1915-18.

Williamson, S. R., The politics of Grand Strategy 1904-14, 1969.

Wilson, Keith, The Policy of the Entente, 1985.

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Wilson, Trevor, 'Britain's moral commitment to France in August 1914,

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Ball, S.,

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Branson, N., and Heinemann, M., Britain in the Nineteen Thirties.

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Cairncross, A. and Eichengreen, B., Sterling in Decline.
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Carlton, D., MacDonald versus Henderson: The Foreign Policy of the Second

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Carsten, F.L., Britain and the Weimar Republic.
Crozier, A., The Causes of the Second World War.

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Darwin, John, Imperialism in Decline? Tendencies in British Imperial Policy

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Drummond, Ian M.,

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Dutton, D., Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics.

Gallager, John, The Decline Revival and Fall of the British Empire.
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Haggie, Paul, Britannia at Bay: the Defence of the British Empire against Japan

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Holland, R. F., Britain and the Commonwealth Alliance, 1918-39.

Keeble, C., Britain and the Soviet Union, 1917-89.

Kent, B., The Spoils of War: the Politics, Economics and Diplomacy of Reparations,

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Killingray, David, A Swift Agent of Government: Air Power in British Colonial

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Labourn, K., The Rise of Labour, 1890-1939.
Louis Allen, Singapore 1941-42, chap. 1.
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Lewis, D. S., Illusions of Grandeur. Mosley, Fascism and British Society, 1931-81

Louis, Roger, British Strategy in the Far East
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Mansergh, P. N. S., The Commonwealth Experience.
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McKibbin, R.I.,

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Orde, A.,

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Parker, R. A. C., Chamberlain and Appeasement.
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Allen, L., The End of the War in Asia.

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Douglas, R., From War to Cold War, 1942-1948.

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