ABSTRACT

This re-issued work, first published in 1959, is a collection of essays by British historian Max Beloff, designed to help us to understand and interpret the political problems of the twentieth century. The essays are divided into three key areas: the challenges and limitations of interpretation from a historian's perspective, the appropriate scale for political activity and organisation in the modern world, and the emergence of the United States of America as the most powerful nation on the planet.

part |1 pages

Part I: The Problem for Historians

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|11 pages

The Frontiers of Political Analysis

chapter 3|10 pages

Historians in a Revolutionary Age

part |1 pages

Part II: Problems of Integration

part |1 pages

Part III: America

chapter 10|6 pages

Tocqueville and the Americans

chapter 12|12 pages

Benjamin Franklin: International Statesman

chapter 13|7 pages

The American Way in Foreign Policy

chapter 14|10 pages

The Predicament of American Foreign Policy

chapter 16|13 pages

Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire