John Ferris
Biographic Data
| ID | 343043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Ferris |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferris |
| SIGNATURE | FERRIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 1, Fighting the War
The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War a team of twenty-five leading historians offer a comprehensive and authoritative new account of the war's military and strategic history. Part I examines the military cultures and st…
The Fulcrum of Power: Britain, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region, 1880-1945
This chapter addresses power, especially a struggle over it, in the Asia-Pacific region. Power in Asia was diffuse, scattered between regions, which largely were self-contained. The balance between Britain and Japan first shifted in the 1880s. The First World War changed the balance between Britain and Japan as much as everything which had occurred in the past twenty years. Japan failed to master or to reconfigure the Asia-Pacific system; it soug…
Turning Japanese: British Observation Of The Russo-Japanese War
During the Russo-Japanese War, British observers assessed Japan and its power. Soldiers discussed cultural issues and correspondents military ones: indeed, journalists, some retired officers or old hands from British campaigns, wrote stories like military estimates, with their political sympathies plain. Both sets of observers used impressionistic interpretations to explain a new phenomenon to home audience. This chapter discusses their observati…
Now that the Milk is Spilt”: Appeasement and the Archive on Intelligence
This article assesses British intelligence and its effect on policy during the interwar years. It discusses the publically available documentation, which now includes almost all the material on the matter, though the data base has been permanently destroyed in significant ways. The paper traces the development of British intelligence between 1869–1939, involving the transition from a tradition to a system of intelligence, with the greatest change…
Generations at war
Thomas X. Hammes asks what power is and what war will be. His answers to these questions have strengths and weaknesses; weaknesses first. The history is reductionist – Hammes loots the past for ped
Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941
British Foreign Policy, 1874-1914: The Role of India , by Sneh Mahajan
"British Foreign Policy, 1874-1914: The Role of India, by Sneh Mahajan." Canadian Journal of History, 40(1), pp. 127–128
The Revolution in Military Affairs: Implications for Canada and Nato
Far too dangerous a gamble'? 1 British intelligence and policy during the Chanak crisis, September-October 1922
Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale, and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War
People, Land and Sustainability: Community Gardens and the Social Dimension of Sustainable Development
Community gardens vary enormously in what they offer, according to local needs and circumstance. This article reports on research and experience from the USA. The context in which these findings are discussed is the implementation of Local Agenda 21 and sustainable development policies. In particular, emphasis is given to exploring the social dimension of sustainable development policies by linking issues of health, education, community developme…
Fighter Defence before Fighter Command: The Rise of Strategic Air Defence in Great Britain, 1917-1934
Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939-1945
Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1950 , edited by Michael Dockrill and Brian McKercher
"Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1950, edited by Michael Dockrill and Brian McKercher." Canadian Journal of History, 33(3), pp. 476–477
Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack
Realism in Green Politics: Social Movements and Ecological Reform in Germany (Issues in Environmental Politics)
Coming in from the Cold War: The Historiography of American Intelligence, 1945?1990
A new branch of history has arisen: the study of intelligence. Not that the topic has ever been ignored. In most decades of this century, some scholars referred to intelligence, their works augmented by a few semi-official accounts and a good many bad books.1 Diplomatic and military historians often discussed espionage and used it for purposes of evidence or explanation. In Russia and the Balkans, 1870–1880 (1937), for example, B. H. Sumner integ…
Indulged in all too little: Vansittart, intelligence and appeasement
(1995). ‘Indulged in all too little'?: Vansittart, intelligence and appeasement. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 6, Robert Vansittrat and an Unbrave World, 1930-37, pp. 122-175
Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I . Donald Richter , Theodore A. Wilson British Propaganda and the State in the First World War . Gary S. Messinger How the War Was Won: Command and…
Worthy of Some Better Enemy?”: The British Estimate of the Imperial Japanese Army 1919-41, and the Fall of Singapore
This article examines British assessments of the characteristics and quality of the Japanese Army between 1919-41, and their effect on the British debacle in Asia during 1941-42. It concludes that the estimates made by British observers in Japan and officially accepted by the war office were far more accurate than is usually recognized. Professional British analysts not only understood their enemy but often were sentimental Japanophiles. Their re…
Haig's Command: A Reassessment
Part 1 Haig's credentials: personal credentials professional credentials. Part 2 The attrition battles of 1916-17: the Somme Passchendaele - the roots, the battle Cambrai. Part 3 The attrition period - Haig's weaknesses: the tool the execution the common denominator. Part 4 A year of mobility: March 1918 - the German offensive August 1918 - a turning point? the last hundred days - an advance to victory? Part 5 Falsifying the record: Haig's fictio…
Green Living
Green Architecture: Design for a Sustainable Future by Brenda and Robert Vale. London: Thames & Hudson, 1991. Pp.192; index. £18.95 (hardback). ISBN 0500 34117 6 Reviving the City: Towards Sustainable Development by Tim Elkin and Duncan McLaren with Mayer Hillman. London: Friends of the Earth, with the Policy Studies Institute, 1991. Pp.xii + 278; indices. £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 905966 83 X Health Through Public Policy: The Greening of Public…
The Greatest Power on Earth: Great Britain in the 1920s
(1991). The Greatest Power on Earth: Great Britain in the 1920s. The International History Review: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 726-750
Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography , by B.J.C. McKercher
"Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography, by B.J.C. McKercher." Canadian Journal of History, 25(3), pp. 429–430
Men, Money, and Diplomacy: The Evolution of British Strategic Foreign Policy, 1919-1926
People, Land and Sustainability: Community Gardens and the Social Dimension of Sustainable Development
Community gardens vary enormously in what they offer, according to local needs and circumstance. This article reports on research and experience from the USA. The context in which these findings are discussed is the implementation of Local Agenda 21 and sustainable development policies. In particular, emphasis is given to exploring the social dimension of sustainable development policies by linking issues of health, education, community developme…
The Greatest Power on Earth: Great Britain in the 1920s
(1991). The Greatest Power on Earth: Great Britain in the 1920s. The International History Review: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 726-750
The theory of a ‘French air menace’, Anglo‐French relations and the British home defence air force programmes of 1921–25
Treasury Control, the Ten Year Rule and British Service Policies, 1919–1924
There is one major gap in the historiography of British strategic policy during the interwar years. Historians have not examined that policy of the 1920s as if it was a coherent topic in its own right. Although writers like Brian Bond, James Neidpath, Stephen Roskill and Malcolm Smith have elucidated aspects of that matter, such as the development of the Singapore base or of the policies of the fighting services, they have still treated each such…
Generations at war
Thomas X. Hammes asks what power is and what war will be. His answers to these questions have strengths and weaknesses; weaknesses first. The history is reductionist – Hammes loots the past for ped
Indulged in all too little: Vansittart, intelligence and appeasement
(1995). ‘Indulged in all too little'?: Vansittart, intelligence and appeasement. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 6, Robert Vansittrat and an Unbrave World, 1930-37, pp. 122-175
Before ‘room 40’: The British Empire and signals intelligence, 1898–1914
(1989). Before ‘room 40’: The British Empire and signals intelligence, 1898–1914. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 431-457
The House of Commons Vote on the Transfer of the Crown, 5 February 1689
Eveline Cruickshanks, John Ferris, David Hayton; The House of Commons Vote on the Transfer of the Crown, 5 February 1689, Historical Research, Volume 52, I
Some Lessons of the U.S.-India Foreign Aid Program
FOR nearly three years the United States has been supplying assistance for India's economic development. American technicians and supplies have gone to India; Indian technicians have taken training in the U. S. Partly because of the unique manner in which this is merged with India's own comprehensive economic development activities, which are on a very large scale, the program differs greatly from programs in other countries. There are, however, …
Organization for Regional Economic Development Projects: A Middle East Experience
A SERIES of eighty-nine steel towers provid~L~ing modern microwave radio now stalk LI-through Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan. Stretching 3000 miles across such natural obstacles as the mountains of Eastern Turkey, the Lut Desert of Southeastern Iran, and the mountains of the Baluchistan area, the new axis from Ankara near the Mediterranean to Tehran and thence to Karachi on the Arabian Sea represents a very considerable engineering accomplishment. Ye…
The House of Commons Vote on the Transfer of the Crown, 5 February 1689
Eveline Cruickshanks, John Ferris, David Hayton; The House of Commons Vote on the Transfer of the Crown, 5 February 1689, Historical Research, Volume 52, I
A British ‘unofficial’ aviation mission and Japanese Naval developments, 1919–1929
(1982). A British ‘unofficial’ aviation mission and Japanese Naval developments, 1919–1929. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 416-439
Welfare
The theory of a ‘French air menace’, Anglo‐French relations and the British home defence air force programmes of 1921–25
Treasury Control, the Ten Year Rule and British Service Policies, 1919–1924
There is one major gap in the historiography of British strategic policy during the interwar years. Historians have not examined that policy of the 1920s as if it was a coherent topic in its own right. Although writers like Brian Bond, James Neidpath, Stephen Roskill and Malcolm Smith have elucidated aspects of that matter, such as the development of the Singapore base or of the policies of the fighting services, they have still treated each such…
Before ‘room 40’: The British Empire and signals intelligence, 1898–1914
(1989). Before ‘room 40’: The British Empire and signals intelligence, 1898–1914. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 431-457
Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography , by B.J.C. McKercher
"Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography, by B.J.C. McKercher." Canadian Journal of History, 25(3), pp. 429–430
Men, Money, and Diplomacy: The Evolution of British Strategic Foreign Policy, 1919-1926
The Greatest Power on Earth: Great Britain in the 1920s
(1991). The Greatest Power on Earth: Great Britain in the 1920s. The International History Review: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 726-750
Haig's Command: A Reassessment
Part 1 Haig's credentials: personal credentials professional credentials. Part 2 The attrition battles of 1916-17: the Somme Passchendaele - the roots, the battle Cambrai. Part 3 The attrition period - Haig's weaknesses: the tool the execution the common denominator. Part 4 A year of mobility: March 1918 - the German offensive August 1918 - a turning point? the last hundred days - an advance to victory? Part 5 Falsifying the record: Haig's fictio…
Green Living
Green Architecture: Design for a Sustainable Future by Brenda and Robert Vale. London: Thames & Hudson, 1991. Pp.192; index. £18.95 (hardback). ISBN 0500 34117 6 Reviving the City: Towards Sustainable Development by Tim Elkin and Duncan McLaren with Mayer Hillman. London: Friends of the Earth, with the Policy Studies Institute, 1991. Pp.xii + 278; indices. £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 905966 83 X Health Through Public Policy: The Greening of Public…
Worthy of Some Better Enemy?”: The British Estimate of the Imperial Japanese Army 1919-41, and the Fall of Singapore
This article examines British assessments of the characteristics and quality of the Japanese Army between 1919-41, and their effect on the British debacle in Asia during 1941-42. It concludes that the estimates made by British observers in Japan and officially accepted by the war office were far more accurate than is usually recognized. Professional British analysts not only understood their enemy but often were sentimental Japanophiles. Their re…
Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack
Realism in Green Politics: Social Movements and Ecological Reform in Germany (Issues in Environmental Politics)
Coming in from the Cold War: The Historiography of American Intelligence, 1945?1990
A new branch of history has arisen: the study of intelligence. Not that the topic has ever been ignored. In most decades of this century, some scholars referred to intelligence, their works augmented by a few semi-official accounts and a good many bad books.1 Diplomatic and military historians often discussed espionage and used it for purposes of evidence or explanation. In Russia and the Balkans, 1870–1880 (1937), for example, B. H. Sumner integ…
Indulged in all too little: Vansittart, intelligence and appeasement
(1995). ‘Indulged in all too little'?: Vansittart, intelligence and appeasement. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 6, Robert Vansittrat and an Unbrave World, 1930-37, pp. 122-175
Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I . Donald Richter , Theodore A. Wilson British Propaganda and the State in the First World War . Gary S. Messinger How the War Was Won: Command and…
Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939-1945
Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1950 , edited by Michael Dockrill and Brian McKercher
"Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1950, edited by Michael Dockrill and Brian McKercher." Canadian Journal of History, 33(3), pp. 476–477
Fighter Defence before Fighter Command: The Rise of Strategic Air Defence in Great Britain, 1917-1934
Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale, and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War
People, Land and Sustainability: Community Gardens and the Social Dimension of Sustainable Development
Community gardens vary enormously in what they offer, according to local needs and circumstance. This article reports on research and experience from the USA. The context in which these findings are discussed is the implementation of Local Agenda 21 and sustainable development policies. In particular, emphasis is given to exploring the social dimension of sustainable development policies by linking issues of health, education, community developme…
Far too dangerous a gamble'? 1 British intelligence and policy during the Chanak crisis, September-October 1922
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