From Empire to International Commonwealth
A Biography of Lionel Curtis
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 12 October 1995
- ISBN 9780198126164
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 243x164x28 mm
- Weight 779 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece 0
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Short description:
Lionel Curtis was a highly influential figure in international affairs throughout the first half of the twentieth century. He was instrumental in extending self-government to the `new South Africa' in 1910, India in 1916, and Eire after 1921. He worked to associate the Commonwealth with America in 1918 and towards a united Europe in 1948. He was founder of the Round Table, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Oxford Society. This is the first biography of this remarkable man.
MoreLong description:
Lionel Curtis C.H. once counted among the great and the good, working behind the scenes of international politics and honoured as the `pioneer of a great idea' - international federation as the natural successor to empire. He advocated federation as the way to create a new South Africa after the Boer War; he called for self-government in India in 1912; in 1921 he was instrumental in attempting to pacify the Irish Troubles by treating Eire as if it were a self-governing Commonwealth Dominion. He went on to preach the conversion of the Empire-Commonwealth into a multinational federation, which, in association with the United States, would serve as a model for a united Europe, and even for world government.
He founded the Round Table think-tank, the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, and the Oxford Society. He lobbied indefatigably for his vision of the Commonwealth as a new world order, to be more effective that the League of Nations in making wars obsolete. In the process, he exasperated nationalists and imperialists alike as a prophet of apparently lost causes.
He deserves to be remembered not only for what he achieved but for what he was: the bore who never lost a friend; the optimist who stuck to his belief when all was lost, the third-class scholar who became a Fellow of All Souls; the visionary riding his hobby-horse into the drawing rooms of high political society and yet invited affectionately to return.
The remarkable character of the man and the influence he exerted on the history of the Empire and Commonwealth are explored in this authoritative biography.
This is an excellent book. Deborah Lavin is conspicuously fair and weighs her subject's strengths and weaknesses with elegant dispassion...an important contribution to imperial history, yet contrives at the same time strikingly to illuminate the infinite and bizarre complexity of human nature.
