Victor Rothwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5441287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Rothwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothwell |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHWELL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
War Aims in the Second World War
This is the first study of the aims that motivated the major powers - the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany and Japan - to fight in the Second World War. The book shows, in a way that has not previously been attempted, how some war aims were constants that were unlikely to be abandoned except as a result of total defeat while others arose and sometimes declined as a result of the fortunes of war. Fresh light is shed on the w…
Isabel V. Hull. A Scrap of Paper
Journal Article Isabel V. Hull. A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War Get access Isabel V. Hull. A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War.Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 368. $45.00. Victor Rothwell Victor Rothwell University of Edinburgh [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The America…
Expelling the Germans
Journal Article Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context Get access Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and post-1945 Population Transfer in Context, by Matthew Frank (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2008; pp. 320. £55). Victor Rothwell Victor Rothwell University of Edinburgh [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume…
Armageddon
Decisions for War, 1914-1917
In 2003 Cambridge University Press published a substantial book edited by Professors Hamilton and Herwig on The Origins of the First World War. This is an abbreviated version, shorn of all reference notes, intended ‘for classroom use and discussion’. Both versions are concerned with identifying the war's decision-makers, the individuals or groups which decided that their country should go to war. The central thesis is that, in all the five great …
Shorter notice. The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany
Journal Article Shorter notice. The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany: a Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933-39. Joseph A Maiolo Get access V Rothwell V Rothwell University of Edinburgh, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 458, September 1999, Pages 1024–1025, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.458.1024 Published: 01 September 1999
Britain and the Cold War, 1941-1947
The Mission of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross to the Far East, 1935–1936
From August 1935 to July 1936 Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the Chief Economic Adviser to the British Government, was away from Britain on an official mission to the Far East. While accepting that, as Hankey, the secretary to the cabinet, put it, after Leith-Ross had been away for several months, he was a ‘distinguished Civil Servant’ whose ‘services could, with difficulty, be spared from European problems’, the aim of this paper is not to describe i…
The British Government and Japanese Military Assistance 1914–1918
V. Mesopotamia in British War Aims, 1914–1918
An expeditionary force of the Indian Army landed in Turkish territory at the head of the Persian Gulf almost immediately upon the declaration of war by Britain against Turkey on 5 November 1914. After winning some minor engagements against Turkish forces, it marched into Basra, the chief town of southern Mesopotamia, on the 23rd. The subsequent course of the campaign in Mesopotamia included a number of setbacks for the British. The principal city…
V. Mesopotamia in British War Aims, 1914–1918
An expeditionary force of the Indian Army landed in Turkish territory at the head of the Persian Gulf almost immediately upon the declaration of war by Britain against Turkey on 5 November 1914. After winning some minor engagements against Turkish forces, it marched into Basra, the chief town of southern Mesopotamia, on the 23rd. The subsequent course of the campaign in Mesopotamia included a number of setbacks for the British. The principal city…
The Mission of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross to the Far East, 1935–1936
From August 1935 to July 1936 Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the Chief Economic Adviser to the British Government, was away from Britain on an official mission to the Far East. While accepting that, as Hankey, the secretary to the cabinet, put it, after Leith-Ross had been away for several months, he was a ‘distinguished Civil Servant’ whose ‘services could, with difficulty, be spared from European problems’, the aim of this paper is not to describe i…
The British Government and Japanese Military Assistance 1914–1918
Expelling the Germans
Journal Article Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context Get access Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and post-1945 Population Transfer in Context, by Matthew Frank (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2008; pp. 320. £55). Victor Rothwell Victor Rothwell University of Edinburgh [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume…
Armageddon
V. Mesopotamia in British War Aims, 1914–1918
An expeditionary force of the Indian Army landed in Turkish territory at the head of the Persian Gulf almost immediately upon the declaration of war by Britain against Turkey on 5 November 1914. After winning some minor engagements against Turkish forces, it marched into Basra, the chief town of southern Mesopotamia, on the 23rd. The subsequent course of the campaign in Mesopotamia included a number of setbacks for the British. The principal city…
The British Government and Japanese Military Assistance 1914–1918
The Mission of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross to the Far East, 1935–1936
From August 1935 to July 1936 Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the Chief Economic Adviser to the British Government, was away from Britain on an official mission to the Far East. While accepting that, as Hankey, the secretary to the cabinet, put it, after Leith-Ross had been away for several months, he was a ‘distinguished Civil Servant’ whose ‘services could, with difficulty, be spared from European problems’, the aim of this paper is not to describe i…
Britain and the Cold War, 1941-1947
Shorter notice. The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany
Journal Article Shorter notice. The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany: a Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933-39. Joseph A Maiolo Get access V Rothwell V Rothwell University of Edinburgh, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 458, September 1999, Pages 1024–1025, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.458.1024 Published: 01 September 1999
Armageddon
Decisions for War, 1914-1917
In 2003 Cambridge University Press published a substantial book edited by Professors Hamilton and Herwig on The Origins of the First World War. This is an abbreviated version, shorn of all reference notes, intended ‘for classroom use and discussion’. Both versions are concerned with identifying the war's decision-makers, the individuals or groups which decided that their country should go to war. The central thesis is that, in all the five great …
Expelling the Germans
Journal Article Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context Get access Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and post-1945 Population Transfer in Context, by Matthew Frank (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2008; pp. 320. £55). Victor Rothwell Victor Rothwell University of Edinburgh [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume…
Isabel V. Hull. A Scrap of Paper
Journal Article Isabel V. Hull. A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War Get access Isabel V. Hull. A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War.Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 368. $45.00. Victor Rothwell Victor Rothwell University of Edinburgh [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The America…
War Aims in the Second World War
This is the first study of the aims that motivated the major powers - the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany and Japan - to fight in the Second World War. The book shows, in a way that has not previously been attempted, how some war aims were constants that were unlikely to be abandoned except as a result of total defeat while others arose and sometimes declined as a result of the fortunes of war. Fresh light is shed on the w…
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