Cold War Britain

MICHAEL F.HOPKINS is Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope. He has co-edited Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post War World (London: Frank Cass, 1994) and is the author of Oliver Franks and the Truman Administration: Anglo-American Relations, 1948-63 (London: Frank Cass, 2002). - MICHAEL KANDIAH is the Director of the Witness Seminar Programme, ICBH, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. His publications include: with Anthony Seldon, Think Tanks and Ideas in Contemporary Britain (2 vols 1996 & 1997); with Harriet Jones, The Myth of Consensus (1996); with Gillian Staerck, PROfiles, British Official Documents 1964 (1996); and with Gillian Staerck and Christopher Staerck, British Documents on Far East Asia (1999). - GILLIAN STAERCK is Editorial Research Officer at ICBH. Her publications include, with Wolfram Kaiser, British Foreign Policy 1955-64 (Macmillan, 2002) and CD-Rom sets with Michael D. Kandiah. She is editor of Modern History Review and the Electronic Journal of International History. She is also writing up her PhD on Anglo-Franco-American Relations, 1958-60.

'This new book on Britain and the Cold War comes as a very useful addition to the recent literature in that it provides a series of spotlights on specific aspects of the subject...a superb collection of debate-provoking essays.' - Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen, Cercles: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone'The contributors to the book offer valuable new perspectives on the early Cold War by revisiting a number of familiar issues and themes in the light of newly released archival material. These chapters are further contextualised and complimented by analyses of several lesser-known subjects, such as Anglo-Swedish relations. The result is an eclectic survey of British politics and policies in the early Cold War period that clearly establishes the nature and significance of both the 'special relationship' and Britain's place in the world.'- Journal of Cold War Studies'Taken together, the essays in this book represent a successful effort by a group of young British scholars to remodel historical understanding of British scholars to remodel historical understanding of British policy in early Cold War period. All have firm archival foundations, heavily weighted toward what is available in the Public Record Office, the National Archives in Washington, the published records of other governments, and memoirs and autobiographies. Though somewhat restricted, this range of primary sources has been exploited so capably that research in suchadditional material as personal papers is unlikely to produce substantially different conclusions.' - Albion

• Introduction; M.F.Hopkins, M.D.Kandiah & G.Staerck PART 1: PRELUDE TO THE COLD WAR Britain and the origins of the Cold War 1917-25; E.Goldstein PART 2: THE COLD WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD Herbert Morrison, the Cold War and Anglo-American Relations 1945-51; M.F.Hopkins Transformation of Political Debates in Britain: The Conservative Party and the Cold War; M.D.Kandiah PART 3: THEMES IN DIPLOMACY Waging the Economic Cold War: Britain and COCOM, 1948-54; I.R.W.Jackson From 'Hot War' to 'Cold War': Western Europe in British Grand Strategy, 1945-48; M.A.L.Longden Fight Against Peace? Britain and the Partisans of Peace, 1948-51; J.Jenks 'Our Staunchest Friends and Allies in Europe': Britain's special relationship with Scandinavia, 1945-53; J.Aunesluoma Revisiting Rapallo: Britain, Germany and the Cold War, 1945-55; S.Mawby PART 4: DEFENCE STUDIES Defence or Deterrence: The Royal Navy and the Cold War, 1945-55; I.Speller Whatever Happened to the Fourth British Empire? The Cold War, Empire Defence v. the USA, 1943-57; W.M.Reynolds A Transfer of Power? Britain, the Anglo-American Relationship and the Cold War in the Middle East, 1957-62; S.J.Blackwell PART 5: REGIONAL STUDIES Coal and the Origins of the Cold War: the British Dilemma Over Cold Supplies From the Ruhr, 1946; S.Greenwood The Algerian War, de Gaulle and the Anglo-American Relations, 1958; G.Staerck Origins of Konfrontasi : Britain and the Creation of Malaysia, 1960-63; P.Busch