Alan John Percivale Taylor

A provocative analysis of Bismarck's motives for colonial expansion. Professor Taylor's analysis is original, meticulously documented, and, whether it delights or outrages the reader, unquestionably stimulating.

A Move in Bismarck's European Policy

Germany's First Bid for Colonies, 1884-1885

A life story of Bismark which analyzes his policies and character by the standards of his time

The Man and the Statesman

Bismarck

Violent political upheavals have occurred as long as there have been political communities. But, in Europe, only since the French revolution have they sought not merely to change the rulers but to transform the entire social and political system. One of A.J.P. Taylor's themes in this generously illustrated book, based on his 1978 television lectures, is that revolutions and revolutionaries do not always coincide: those who start them often do so unintentionally, while revolutionaries tend to be most active in periods of counter-revolution. In his lively and combative style the author traces the line of development of the revolutionary tradition from 1789 through Chartism, the social and national upheavals of 1848, the 'revolutionaries without a revolution' of the following sixty years - Marx, Engels, Bakunin, and others - to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917.

Revolutions and Revolutionaries

Highlights key figures and events of the Great War and examines its destructive impact on the countries involved

An Illustrated History

The First World War

The Second World War

British events during the two world wars and the troubled years between them are carefully chronicled

English History, 1914-1945

A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary

The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918

"More than a recreation of moments in time from Europe that no longer exists, The Last of old Europe captures in these photographs an unchanging quality of humanity. AJP Taylor reminds us that "all things change" but that we recognize ourselves in these faces looking out at us from the past. Coming as it so opportunely did at the eleventh hour of culture about to be overtaken by incredible industrial and technological change, the camera has preserved a record of daily life that the written history of the period could never have a wholly preserved. Though artists of the day recorded the splendor of royal and wealthy patrons, few could afford to devote themselves to as vast a record of the common man. The efforts of these pioneering photographers have immensely enriched historical perspective.

A Grand Tour with A. J. P. Taylor

The Last of Old Europe

The controversial historian offers a candid account of his education, conversion to socialism, personal life, career as historian, and friendships with such personalities as Rebecca West, Lord Beaverbrook, and Lewis Namier

A Personal History

Бисмарк - човекът и държавникът

Essays for A. J. P. Taylor

A Century of Conflict, 1850-1950

Chris Cook

Alan Sked

Sked: Metternich and the Federalist Myth. Grigg: Liberals on Trial. - Cook: Labour and the Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1906-1914. - Koss: Asquith versus Lloyd - George: The Last Phase and Beyond. Stevenson: Myth and Reality: Britain in the 1930s. - Watt: The Historiography of Appeasement. - Nish: Japan and the Outbreak of War in 1941. - Marwick: People's War and Top People's Peace? British Society and the Second World War. - Addison: Journey to the Centre: Churchill and Labour in Coalition.

Essays in Honour of A. J. P. Taylor

Crisis and Controversy

One of the most famous and controversial works by possibly the highest profile historian of the twentieth century.

A Survey of the Development of German History Since 1815

The Course of German History

Photographs show royalty, industry, urban and rural life, wealth, poverty, religious practices, transportation, work, leisure, women, and soldiers in Europe between 1850 and the First World War

A Grand Tour with A.J.P. Taylor

This book chronicles three decades largely overshadowed by war and mass unemployment. It was a period that saw in England the formation of a national government, the only genuine incidence of three-party politics, the fruition of campaigns for trades union recognition, women's suffrage, and Irish independence, and abroad withdrawal from the Gold Standard and involvement in collective security. Written in Taylor's customary provocative style, this is historical writing at its best. -- From https://books.google.com (April 20, 2018).

Alan John Percivale Taylor

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