W. K. H., review of A. J. P. Taylor, Germany's First Bid for Colonies, 1884–1885: A Move in Bismarck's European Policy in International Affairs, Vol. 17, No. 4 (July – August 1938), p. 558
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The book will also suggest that students of world politics should draw for their rules of interpretation rather less on Marx and rather more on Machiavelli.
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About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
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