Britain and the Last Tsar: British Policy and Russia, 1894-1917

by Keith Neilson

Britain and the Last Tsar is a fundamental re-interpretation of British foreign and defense policy before the First World War. The currect orthodoxy asserts that the rise of an aggressive and powerful Germany forced Britain--a declining power--to abandon her traditional policy of avoiding alliances and to enter into alliance with Japan (1902), France (1904), and Russia (1907) in order to contain the German menace. In a controversial rejection of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198204701
• ISBN13: 9780198204701
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"