Date of Award

1-1-2013

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of History

Content Description

1 online resource (iv, 337 pages)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Dan White

Committee Members

Richard Fogarty, H. Peter Krosby

Keywords

balance of power, British Foreign Office, Crowe, diplomacy, foreign policy, World War I, World War, 1914-1918

Subject Categories

European History | History | International Relations

Abstract

Sir Eyre Crowe is known to historians primarily as the author of the 1907 Memorandum on French and German relations in which he concluded that Britain must maintain the Entente with France because Germany's aim was to gain hegemony over Europe. He was also arguably the central figure of the British Foreign Office for the first two-and-a-half decades of the twentieth century, and his career in the Foreign Office spanned forty years.

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