Harold Macmillan and the Berlin Wall Crisis, 1958–62: The Limits of Interests and Force

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: ‘Perfide Albion’ All the Way?....Pages 1-6
Britain and France: Some Comments on a Complex Relationship....Pages 7-10
French and British Businessmen in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 11-33
The End of the Anglo-French Commercial Alliance, 1860–1894....Pages 34-43
Théophile Delcassé and the Question of Intervention in the Anglo-Boer War, October 1899–March 1900....Pages 44-55
Anglo-French Rivalry over Siam and the Treaties of April 1904....Pages 56-68
Elie Halévy and Anglo-French Relations, 1898–1905....Pages 69-79
‘Breaking the Banque’: the Great Crisis in Franco-British Central Bank Relations between the Wars....Pages 80-93
British Official Perceptions of France and the French, 1936–1940....Pages 94-108
The Supreme War Council and the Allied War Effort, 1939–1940....Pages 109-124
France in Churchill’s The Second World War ....Pages 125-137
The ‘Mésentente Cordiale’: Economic Relations between France and Great Britain since 1945....Pages 138-160
The ‘Problem of de Gaulle’, 1958–1967....Pages 161-173
Britain, France and Economic Planning in the 1960s: the Commissariat au Plan: Role Model or Counter-model?....Pages 174-188
Lionel Jospin-Tony Blair: Building a Comparison....Pages 189-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-211