The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939

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Of his own titles this was A.J.P. Taylor's favourite. It is not hard to see why. The title alone provides a strong clue. He would always have an affinity with those engaged in such an activity. Derived from the Ford Lectures of 1956, A.J.P. Taylor in six vivid chapters examines Dissent over British Foreign Policy between 1792 and 1939. In his own words 'it is much the most exciting and interesting book I have written'.

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A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) was the most famous and controversial historian of the twentieth century. Author of over thirty books, the three peaks of his scholarship are the massive and authoritative The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848 - 1918, the idiosyncratic English History, 1914 - 1945 and the revisionist Origins of the Second World War. But there was much else, The Trouble Makers: Dissent Over Foreign Policy, 1792 - 1939 was his own personal favourite. The essay often saw A.J.P. Taylor at his best, it was a medium well suited to his pithy, provocatice, epigrammatic style. After his death the best of his essays were selected and reassembled by Chris Wrigley into three volumes: From Naplolen to the Second International: From the Boer War to the Cold War and British Prime Ministers.