International Relations Between the Two World Wars 1919-1939

by Edward Hallett Carr

'A very excellent book ...A masterpiece of balanced exposition.' Sir Harold Nicolson, Daily Telegraph 'May well come to be regarded as the standard short history of world affairs ...The story is careful, balanced, adequate and no more trustworthy aid to an understanding of present foreign politics could be advised.' Times Literary Supplement

Genres: History, International Relations, Nonfiction

311 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1969

About the author

Edward Hallett Carr was a liberal realist and later left-wing British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography.

Carr was best known for his 14-volume history of the Soviet Union, in which he provided an account of Soviet history from 1917 to 1929, for his writings on international relations, and for his book What Is History?, in which he laid out historiographical principles rejecting traditional historical methods and practices.

Educated at Cambridge, Carr began his career as a diplomat in 1916. Becoming increasingly preoccupied with the study of international relations and of the Soviet Union, he resigned from the Foreign Office in 1936 to begin an academic career. From 1941 to 1946, Carr worked as an assistant editor at The Times, where he was noted for his leaders (editorials) urging a socialist system and an Anglo-Soviet alliance as the basis of a post-war order. Afterwards, Carr worked on a massive 14-volume work on Soviet history entitled A History of Soviet Russia, a project that he was still engaged in at the time of his death in 1982. In 1961, he delivered the G. M. Trevelyan lectures at the University of Cambridge that became the basis of his book, What is History?. Moving increasingly towards the left throughout his career, Carr saw his role as the theorist who would work out the basis of a new international order.

Reviews

[Miraj (Papyrus) Khaled · Rating 4 out of 5]

one of the very first text I read on International Relations/ World History. and still one of the best.

[Faheem · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the finest text on the subject of International Relations which gives a critical review of scenario of international events. It must be read by every student, diplomat and envoy.

[Joshua Bishop · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you’re tired of reading about WWI and WWII but still love reading about that time in history, pick up this book and learn about all the stuff that gets glossed over. Treaties that worked and all the ones that obviously didn’t are cover in just enough detail, as well as important events happening outside of Europe. After burning myself out on WWII this book took me away and brought me right back hungry for more.

[he chow · Rating 4 out of 5]

翻譯紮實。

[Farhan · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is awesome. I will recommend it to my class.