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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450360103321

Titolo

Cross-Channel currents : 100 hundred years of the Entente Cordiale / / edited by Richard Mayne, Douglas Johnson and Robert Tombs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-27906-X

0-415-34661-4

1-280-05543-X

0-203-62458-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsonDouglas <1925->

Disciplina

327.41044

327.440440904

Soggetti

Great Britain - Foreign relations - France

Political Science

Great Britain

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Electronic books.

France Foreign relations 20th century

France Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations 20th century

Great Britain Foreign relations France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Forewords; Introduction; A Century Ago; How the Entente Cordiale Began; Danger from the East; The German Threat; World War I, 1914  18; Testing the Entente Cordiale; Winning the War: Kitchener and Foch; Between the Wars; The 1920s; The 1930s; World War II, 1939  45; Churchill and France; De Gaulle and Britain; Churchill and de Gaulle; Britain and the French Resistance; The End of Empire, 1945  97; France and Britain Decolonise; France, Britain and Europe; Britain into Europe; The Entente in a Unipolar World



Paris, London and WashingtonFour's a Crowd; The Entente and Mutual Understanding; A Tale of Two Cultures; The Entente Today; A View from the Quai d'Orsay; The Narrowing Channel?; France and Britain in Tomorrow's Europe; Towards a New Alliance; Envoi; Postface; About the Contributors; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance.