1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814432103321

Autore

Cormac Rory

Titolo

Confronting the colonies : British intelligence and counterinsurgency / / Rory Cormac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-306-26021-3

0-19-936527-X

0-19-936539-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (500 p.)

Disciplina

327.1241017124109045

Soggetti

Intelligence service - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Counterinsurgency - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Great Britain Colonies History 20th century

Great Britain Foreign relations 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowlegements; Abbreviations; 1. Intelligence Assessment in an Age of Competing Threats; An Age of Competing Threats; Strategic Intelligence and the British Counterinsurgency Experience; The Joint Intelligence Committee and the Importance of Strategic Intelligence; 2. Unfulfilled Potential: Malaya, 1948-1951; The JIC in 1948; Warning and Assessment; Broadening Assessments; Intelligence 'Management'; Broader Reflections; 3. Turf Wars and Tension: Cyprus, 1955-1959; The JIC, 1955-1959; Intelligence Advice; Assessing the Internal Threat; Internationalising Insurgencies

Broader Reflections4. Into the Whitehall Minefield: Aden and the Federation of South Arabia, 1962-1967; The JIC, 1962-1967; Intelligence Reform; Threat Assessment; Covert Action; Broader Reflections; 5. After Pax Britannica: Oman, 1968-1975; The JIC in 1968; Managing Intelligence Overseas; Assessments; Policy Input; Broader Reflections; 6. Defining Threats, Understanding Security; JIC Evolution and the Quest for Inclusivity; Strategic intelligence and counterinsurgency: roles and lessons; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B;



C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Moving the debate beyond the place of tactical intelligence in counterinsurgency warfare, Confronting the Colonies considers the view from Whitehall, where the biggest decisions were made. It reveals the evolving impact of strategic intelligence upon government understandings of, and policy responses to, insurgent threats. Confronting the Colonies demonstrates for the first time how, in the decades after World War Two, the intelligence agenda expanded to include non-state actors, insurgencies, and irregular warfare. It explores the challenges these emerging threats posed to intelligence assess

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910372778803321

Autore

Stolte Carolien

Titolo

World History – a Genealogy : Private Conversations with World Historians, 1996-2016 / / edited by Carolien Stolte and Alicia Schrikker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 20170403

Leiden : , : Leiden University Press, , [2017]

2017

ISBN

9789400602854

9400602855

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource 429 pages)

Disciplina

907.2

Soggetti

World history - Historiography

Historians

Historiography - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Interviews previously published in the journal Itinerario.

Nota di bibliografia

"Bibliography of world historians": pages 411-419.

"Bibliography of world history": pages 421-429.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Facing World History: inspirations, institutions, networks -- Interviews -- Interview with Brij V. Lal, Historian of Indenture and of Contemporary Fiji -- 'I end up with



the question "why", but I don't start with it': Interview with Geoffrey Parker -- The Importance of Knowledge-Systems: Interview with John Rankine Goody -- The Best of Two Worlds: Interview with Om Prakash -- The Study of Contrasts across Europe: Interview with Patrick O'Brien -- History is Placing a Man in the Context of his Times: Interview with the Late Ashin Das Gupta (1932-1998) -- 'I didn't get into history to avoid math or physics': Interview with Patricia Seed, Professor of Rice University -- A Sea of Histories, a History of the Seas: Interview with Adrian B. Lapian -- Sympathetic 'Farangi': Interview with Michael N. Pearson -- Why Is China So Big? And Other Big Questions: Interview with John E. Wills, Jr. -- Slavery, Migration and the Atlantic World: Interview with Piet Emmer -- 'I am not going to call myself a global historian': Interview with C.A. Bayly -- The Retreat of the Elephants: Interview with Mark Elvin -- Wanting to know everything in a complex world: Interview with Allison Blakely -- Transoceanic Trade: The Reconstruction of Al-Mukhâ through VOC Records: Interview with C.G. Brouwer -- World History and Other Marginal and Perverse Pursuits: Interview with Felipe Fernandez-Armesto -- Studying Southeast Asia in and for Southeast Asia: Interview with Anthony Reid -- The Red-Haired Barbarian from Leiden: Interview with Leonard Blussé -- You turn a page and then there is suddenly something on a turtle': Interview with Jürgen Osterhammel -- Are We All Global Historians Now?: Interview with David Armitage -- Lessons from African History: between the deep and the shallow ends of social theory and historical empiricism. Interview with Frederick Cooper -- 'Being speculative is better than to not do it at all': Interview with Natalie Zemon Davis -- Map-Making in World History: Interview with Kären Wigen -- 'My favourite source is the landscape': Interview with Robert Ross -- History as Renegade Politics: Interview with Ann Laura Stoler -- Bibliography of World Historians -- Bibliography of World History

Sommario/riassunto

World History--A Genealogy charts the history of the discipline through twenty-five in-depth conversations with historians whose work has shaped the field of world history in fundamental ways. These conversations, which took place over a period of twenty years for the world history journal Itinerario, cover these historians' lives, work, and views of the academy in general and the field of world history in particular. An extensive introduction distills the most important developments in the field from these conversations, and sheds light on what these historians have in common, as well as--perhaps more importantly--what separates them.