Anglo-French Relations 1898 - 1998

From Fashoda to Jospin

P. Chassaigne, M. Dockrill, P. Chassaigne, M. Dockrill

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN:
  9780333912614
• eBook ISBN:
  9781403907127
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

From the Fashoda incident in 1898 to the current Blair-Jospin 'entente', this book reviews one century of Franco-British relations. Friend or foe? Partner or rival? Model or counter-model? The two countries continually wavered between two extremes. Yet, as this collection of papers show, they have always had more things in common than suspected in the first place, and there has always been a strong case for cooperation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Anglo-French Relations 1898-1998
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction: ‘Perfide Albion’ All the Way?
• 1 Britain and France: Some Comments on a Complex Relationship
• 2 French and British Businessmen in the Nineteenth Century
• 3 The End of the Anglo-French Commercial Alliance, 1860–1894
• 4 Théophile Delcassé and the Question of Intervention in the Anglo-Boer War, October 1899–March 1900
• 5 Anglo-French Rivalry over Siam and the Treaties of April 1904
• 6 Elie Halévy and Anglo-French Relations, 1898–1905
• 7 ‘Breaking the Banque’: the Great Crisis in Franco-British Central Bank Relations between the Wars
• 8 British Official Perceptions of France and the French, 1936–1940
• 9 The Supreme War Council and the Allied War Effort, 1939–1940
• 10 France in Churchill’s The Second World War
• 11 The ‘Mésentente Cordiale’: Economic Relations between France and Great Britain since 1945
• 12 The ‘Problem of de Gaulle’, 1958–1967
• 13 Britain, France and Economic Planning in the 1960s: the Commissariat au Plan: Role Model or Counter-model?
• 14 Lionel Jospin-Tony Blair: Building a Comparison
• Index