num_pages: 392
description: This book brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decline'. It also offers a broader reflection on the nature of international power and the mechanisms of policymaking. For this Second Edition, David Reynolds has added a new chapters and extends his lively and incisive analysis to the beginning of the new millennium.
language: English
title: Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century
titlecomplete: Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century
characters: Harold Macmillan, Winston Churchill, Ernest Bevin, Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Tony Blair, David Lloyd George, Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson, Neville Chamberlain, Charles de Gaulle
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 37
series: Studies in Modern History
publisher: Routledge