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Louis, William Roger was born on May 8, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Henry Edward and Bena May (Flood) Louis.
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SUBJECT: "A Panel of scholars were asked to review the events that marked the British departure from Palestine, the decision for partition and the birth of Israel. The separate contributions on the strategies and policies of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Jewish and Arab leaderships."
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This is a far-reaching study of how Britain's postwar Labour government attempted to sustain a vision of Britain as a world power. Committed to the liquidation of the old British Empire, the government sought to develop new relationships in the Middle East as a replacement for India, hoping to halt the decline of the Empire by putting it on a new basis. Caught between the forces of anti-British nationalism and American anti-colonialism, the attempt was ultimately destined to fail; but it marks a crucial phase in the story of British imperialism and of Middle Eastern history.
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Pax Britannica to Pax Americana is the story of the British Empire from its late-nineteenth century flowering to its present extinction. Louis traces the British Empire from the scramble for Africa, the turbulent imperial history of the Second World War in Asia, and the mid-20th century rush to independence to the Suez crisis, the icon of empire's end. It forms the ideal platform from which to examine the aims and outcome of empire. This authoritative and highly engaging history appears at a time when interest in the history of the British Empire has, ironically, never been stronger, making Ends of British Imperialism a must-read item for both scholar and general reader.
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This book examines the wartime controversies between Britain and America about the future of the colonial world, and considers the ethical, military, and economic forces behind imperialism during World War II. It concludes that, for Britain, there was a revival of the sense of colonial mission; the Americans, on the other hand, felt justified in creating a strategic fortress in the Pacific Islands while carrying the torch of "international trusteeship" throughout the rest of the world-a scheme that Churchill and others viewed as a cloak for American expansion.
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This book, which examines British disengagement in the Middle East during the Labour Government of 1945-51, is in a large sense a comment on the British response to Arab, Jewish, and Iranian nationalism.
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Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scholars - historians, political scientists, journalists, novelists, biographers and English literature specialists - to guide the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of British culture, history and politics. Together, they provide a unique insight into the pivotal themes, political, literary and cultural, which have shaped British state and society. Including a comparison of A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper by Adam Sisman, a new appraisal of Prince Albert by Rosemary Hill, an assessment of Keats by Ferdinand Mount and a Diamond Jubilee portrait of Elizabeth II by Max Hastings, this book provides a rich mix of original ideas, historical and literary allusion, personality and anecdote, which together provide an intellectual adventure into the mainsprings of modern British and international society.
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Louis, William Roger was born on May 8, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Henry Edward and Bena May (Flood) Louis.
Bachelor, University Oklahoma, 1959. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1962.
Doctor of Letters, Oxford University, 1979. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Westminster College, 1998.
Assistant professor, then associate professor history Yale University, 1962-1970. Professor history University Texas, Austin, 1970-1985, director British Studies, since 1975, Kerr chair English history and culture, since 1985, distinguished teaching professor, since 1998. Supernumerary fellow St. Antony's College, University Oxford, England, 1986-1996, honorary fellow, since 1996.
Fellow British Academy, since 1993. Chichele lecturer All Souls College, University Oxford, England, 1990, 2002, 03, 06. Distinguished lecturer London School of Economics, 1992.
Cust lecturer Nottingham University, 1995. Elie Kedourie Memorial lecturer British Academy, 1996. Churchill Memorial lecturer, 1998.
History faculty lecturer University Oxford, England, 2001. Distinguished visiting professor American University in Cairo, 2001. Kalb lecturer Rice University, 2001.
Fusco lecturer University Connecticut, 2001, Costa lecturer University Ohio, 2002. Director summer seminars National Endowment of the Humanities, 1985, 88, 90, 91, 96, 2000. Director Mellon Decolonization Summer Seminars, since 2006.
Antonius lecturer Oxford University, 2002, Leonard Stein lecturer, Oxford University, 2005. Strelitz lecturer, Tel Aviv, 2008. Hinckley lecturer University Utah, 2008, founding director National History Center, since 2001.
Chairman United States State Department History Advisory Committee, 2002-2008. Scholars council, Library.
(This book examines the wartime controversies between Brit...)
(This book, which examines British disengagement in the Mi...)
(SUBJECT: "A Panel of scholars were asked to review the ev...)
( Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia is the latest a...)
( Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia is the latest a...)
( Pax Britannica to Pax Americana is the story of the Bri...)
(This is a far-reaching study of how Britain's postwar Lab...)
Trustee British Empire Museum, Bristol, England. Fellow Royal History Society. Member American History Association (president 2001), Council on Foreign Relations (New York City), Texas Institute Letters, Reform Club (London), Century (New York City), Metropolitan Club (Washington).
Married Dagmar Cecilia Friedrich. Children: Antony Andrew, Catherine Annual.