Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century Ever Decreasing Circles

Designed for students and teachers of modern British and international history, this book analyzes Britain's changing position in the world during the twentieth century, placing British policy-making in the appropriate domestic and international contexts, and offering an alternative to the 'decline'-obsessed assessments of Britain's role in global affairs. It makes use of primary sources-especially speeches, diaries, correspondence, newspapers and other contemporary publications-while also synthesizing the work of other historians to provide an up-to-date account of relevant trends in the historiography. Book jacket.

Michael J. Turner is the author of Independent Radicalism in Early Victorian Britain, Pitt the Younger and British Politics in the Age of Reform. He is Roy Carroll Distinguished Professor of British History at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.