Items where Author is "Best, Antony"

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2023) To contemplate the soul of the oldest civilization in the world: Britain and the Chinese art exhibition of 1935-36. International History Review, 45 (2). 292 - 306. ISSN 0707-5332

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2020) British engagement with Japan, 1854 -1922: the origins and course of an unlikely alliance. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9781138477308

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2019) A royal alliance: court diplomacy and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1902-41. In: Kornicki, Peter, Best, Antony and Cortazzi, Hugh, (eds.) British royal and Japanese imperial relations, 1868-2018: 150 years of association, engagement and celebration. Renaissance Books, Folkestone, UK. ISBN 9781898823865

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2018) British relations with Japan, 1858-2017: an overview. In: Best, Antony and Cortazzi, Hugh, (eds.) British foreign secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990: aspects of the evolution of British foreign policy. Renaissance Books with the Japan Society, Folkestone, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9781898823735

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2018) Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Japan: the revival of political relations, 1961-74. In: Best, Antony and Cortazzi, Hugh, (eds.) British foreign secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990: aspects of the evolution of British foreign policy. Renaissance Books with the Japan Society, Folkestone, pp. 259-264. ISBN 9781898823735

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2018) Sir Samuel Hoare and Japan: an orthodox conservative in the 1930s. In: Best, Antony and Cortazzi, Hugh, (eds.) British foreign secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990: aspects of the evolution of British foreign policy. Renaissance Books with the Japan Society, Folkestone, pp. 179-183. ISBN 9781898823735

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2016) ‘The Jackal’s Share’: Whitehall, the City of London and British policy towards the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–9. In: Fisher, John, Pedaliu, Effie G. H. and Smith, Richard, (eds.) The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 211-231. ISBN 9781137465818

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2015) Daiei Teikoku no Shin-Nichi Ha: Kaisen ha Naze Sakerare Nakattaka = British Japanophiles: why could Britain and Japan not avoid war? [translated from the original English-language essays by Dr Tomoki Takeda]. Chuo Koron Shuppansha, Tokyo, Japan.

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Maiolo, Joseph A. and Schulze, Kirsten E. (2014) International history of the twentieth century and beyond. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415656412

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2014) The British Empire's image of East Asia, 1900-41: politics, ideology, and international order. In: Murfett, Malcolm, (ed.) Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century: A Tough Ask in Turbulent Times. Security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 21-40. ISBN 9781137431486

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2013) A cardinal point of our world strategy: the Foreign Office and the normalization of relations with Japan, 1952-63. In: Young, John W., Pedaliu, Effie G. H. and Kandiah, Michael D., (eds.) Britain in Global Politics: From Churchill to Blair (Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World). Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 100-118. ISBN 9780230360396

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2013) The Leith-Ross mission and British policy towards East Asia, 1934-37. International History Review, 35 (4). pp. 681-701. ISSN 0707-5332

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2013) Japan and the Cold War. In: Immerman, Richard H. and Goedde, Petra, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War. Oxford handbooks in history. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 286-302. ISBN 9780199236961

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2013) Eikoku to Nihon pan-Ajia shugi e no chōsen, 1895-1956 [Britain, Japan and the Challenge of Pan-Asianism, 1895-1956]. In: Matsūra, Masataka, (ed.) Ajia Shugi Wa Nani O Kataru Noka : Kioku Kenryoku Kachi. Minerubashobō, Kyōto, Japan, pp. 240-254. ISBN 9784623064885

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2013) G. E. Morrison (1862-1920) and Japan. In: Cortazzi, Hugh, (ed.) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Britain and Japan. Global Oriental, Leiden, pp. 469-480. ISBN 9789004246027

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2013) Major-General F.S.G. Piggott (1883-1966). In: Cortazzi, Hugh, (ed.) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Britain and Japan. Global Oriental, Leiden, pp. 102-116. ISBN 9789004246027

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2012) 'We are virtually at war with Russia': Britain and the Cold War in East Asia, 1923-40. Cold War History, 12 (2). pp. 205-225. ISSN 1468-2745

Fisher, John and Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2011) Introduction: on the fringes of diplomacy: influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945. In: Fisher, John and Best, Antony, (eds.) On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945. Ashgate Dartmouth, Aldershot, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781409401193

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2011) The double agent’s tale: Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1915-18. In: Fisher, John and Best, Antony, (eds.) On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945. Ashgate Dartmouth, Aldershot, UK, pp. 111-126. ISBN 9781409401193

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2011) Book review: Manchurian railways and the opening of China: an international history - edited by Bruce A. Elleman and Stephen Kotkin. History, 96 (322). pp. 219-220. ISSN 0018-2648

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2011) Igirisu kara mita taiheiyo senso no kigen: senso o kaihi denakatta (dai ei teikoku no shin nichi ha). Chuo Koron (2011). Website.

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2010) General introduction. In: Best, Antony, (ed.) Imperial Japan and the World, 1931-1945. Critical concepts in Asian studies. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415406765

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2010) The Shanghai Temper': J.O.P. Bland (1863-1945) and Japan. In: Cortazzi, Hugh, (ed.) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Britain and Japan series,VII (7). Global Oriental, Folkestone, UK, 311 - 322. ISBN 9781906876265

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2010) The Anglo-Japanese alliance, the “Open Door” and international politics in Asia, 1902-23. In: Best, Antony, (ed.) The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order. Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 21-34. ISBN 9780415401241

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2010) Introduction: the international history of East Asia, 1900–1968: trade, ideology and the quest for order. In: Best, Antony, (ed.) The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order. Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9780415401241

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2010) Rt. Hon. Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) and Japan, 1924-40. In: Cortazzi, Hugh, (ed.) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Global Oriental, Folkestone, pp. 69-80. ISBN 9789004218031

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2008) The role of diplomatic practice and court protocol in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1867-1900. In: Mosslang, Markus and Riotte, Torsten, (eds.) The Diplomats’ World: the Cultural History of Diplomacy, 1815-1914. Studies of the German Historical Institute. Oxford University Press/German Historical Institute, Oxford, UK, pp. 231-253. ISBN 9780199548675

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Maiolo, Joseph A. and Schulze, Kirsten E. (2008) International history of the twentieth century and beyond. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415438957

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2007) Senkanki higashi ajia ni okeru kokusai renmei: kokusai kyocho shugi, chiki shugi, nashonarizimu -[Internationalism, regionalism and nationalism in East Asia in the inter-war period]. In: Ogata, Sadako and Hanzawa, Tomohiko, (eds.) Guroubalu Govanansu No Rekishiteki Henyo; Kokuren to Kokusai Seijishi [Global Governance in Historical Perspectives; the United. Minerva Publishing, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 25-48. ISBN 9784623048922

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2007) The birth of the league and the death of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, 1918-1922. In: Hanzawa, A and Yamaguchi, J, (eds.) Japan and the Un in International Politics – Historical Perspectives. Academia Juris Booklet (24). Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, pp. 10-32. ISBN 9784902066234

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2007) “Monko kaiho” ka, “seiryokuken” ka: senkanki no igirisu, nihon to chugoku mondai [“Open door” or “sphere of influence”: Britain, Japan and South China in the inter-war period]. In: Matsuura, M, (ed.) Showa Ajia Shugi No Jitsu-Z? – Nihon No Nanshin to Taiwan – Nany? – Minami Shina [Showa and the Reality of Pan-Asianism – Japan’. Minerva Publishing, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 126-147. ISBN 9784623049424

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2007) A royal alliance: court diplomacy and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1900–41. In: Cortazzi, Hugh, (ed.) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Global Oriental, Folkestone, pp. 63-70. ISBN 9781905246335

Shillony, Ben-Ami and Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2006) Japanese monarchy: past and present. IS (512). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2006) Race, monarchy and the Anglo-Japanese alliance, 1902-1922. Social Science Japan Journal, 9 (2). pp. 171-186. ISSN 1468-2680

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2006) The 'ghost' of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance: an examination into historical mythmaking. Historical Journal, 49 (3). pp. 811-831. ISSN 0018-246X

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2006) Diagnosis and autopsy: Britain and the outbreak of the Pacific war. NIDS Military History Studies Annual, 9. pp. 118-137. ISSN 1345-5117

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2006) The 'cultural turn' and the international history of East Asia: a response to David Reynolds. Cultural and Social History, 3 (4). pp. 482-489. ISSN 1478-0038

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2005) British intellectuals and East Asia in the inter-war years. In: Louis, W M Roger, (ed.) Yet More Adventures With Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, London, UK, pp. 305-320. ISBN 1845110927

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2005) Our respective empires should stand together: the royal dimension in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1919-1941. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 16 (2). pp. 259-279. ISSN 0959-2296

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Maiolo, Joseph A. and Schulze, Kirsten E. (2004) International history of the twentieth century. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415207409

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2004) India, pan-Asianism and the Anglo-Japanese alliance. In: O'Brien, Phillips P, (ed.) The Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia. Routledge, London, pp. 236-248. ISBN 0415326117

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2004) Ohitsu-gaiko kara mita nichi-ei kankei 1919-1941 [The royal dimension in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1919-1941]. In: Ito, Y. and Kawata, M., (eds.) Nijuseki Nihon No Tenno to Kunshusei-Kokusaihikaku No Shiten Kara 1867-1952 [the Emperor and Monarchy in Twentieth Century Japan. Yoshikawa Kobunkan, Japan, pp. 273-302.

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2003) Imperial Japan. In: Boyce, Robert and Maiolo, Joseph A, (eds.) The Origins of World War Two: the Debate Continues. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 52-69.

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2002) British intelligence and the Japanese challenge in Asia, 1914-1941. Studies in military and strategic history. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780333945513

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2002) Economic appeasement or economic nationalism? A political perspective on the British Empire, Japan and the rise of intra-Asian trade, 1933-37. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 30 (2). pp. 77-101. ISSN 0308-6534

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2002) Intelligence, diplomacy and the Japanese threat to British interests, 1914-41. Intelligence and National Security, 17 (1). pp. 87-102. ISSN 0268-4527

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2002) Lord Sempill (1893-1965) and Japan, 1921-41. In: Cortazzi, Hugh, (ed.) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Japan library. Japan Society (London, England), London, UK, pp. 375-382. ISBN 9781903350140

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2002) Sir Robert Clive, 1877-1948: British ambassador to Japan, 1934-37. In: Cortazzi, Hugh, (ed.) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Japan library. Japan Society (London, England), London, UK, pp. 101-110. ISBN 9781903350140

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2001) Keizai teki yuwa seisaku ka, Keizai teki nashonarizumu ka - 1933-38 nen ni okeru igirisu teikoku, nihon, sosite: ajia kan boeki no kouryu ni tuite no seiji si teki kaishaku [Economic appeasement or economic nationalism? A political perspective on the British Empire, Japan and the rise of intra-Asian trade, 1933-38]. Zinbun Gakuho, 85. pp. 63-87. ISSN 0449-0274

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (2000) The road to Anglo-Japanese confrontation, 1931-41. In: Nish, Ian and Kibata, Yoichi, (eds.) The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000 : Volume Ii: the Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1931-2000. The history of Anglo-Japanese relations, 1600-2000. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 26-50. ISBN 9780333770986

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (1999) "That loyal British subject?": Arthur Edwardes and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1932-41. In: Hoare, Jim E, (ed.) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Japan library. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 227-239. ISBN 9781873410899

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (1999) Britain and the coming of the Pacific War. In: Iriye, Akira, (ed.) Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War. Beford series in history and culture. Bedford/St. Martin's, pp. 194-207. ISBN 9780312218188

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (1999) The British perspective. In: Iriye, Akira, (ed.) Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War. The Bedford series in history and culture. Bedford/St. Martin's, Boston, pp. 194-206. ISBN 9780312147884

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (1997) "This is probably over-valued military power": British intelligence and Whitehall's perception of Japan. Intelligence and National Security, 12 (3). pp. 67-94. ISSN 0268-4527

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (1997) Mamoru Shigemitsu and Anglo-Japanese relations. In: Nish, Ian, (ed.) Britian and Japan: Biographical Portaits. Routledge, Oxford, UK, pp. 245-260. ISBN 9781873410622

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (1996) Constructing an image: British intelligence and Whitehall's perception of Japan. Intelligence and National Security, 11 (3). pp. 403-423. ISSN 0268-4527

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (1995) Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour avoiding war in East Asia, 1936-1941. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415111713

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (1995) Sir Robert Craigie as ambassador to Japan, 1937-1941. In: Nish, Ian, (ed.) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Routledge, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781873410271

Best, Antony ORCID: 0009-0000-6657-3280 (1994) 'Straws in the wind': Britain and the February 1941 war-scare in East Asia. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 5 (3). pp. 642-665. ISSN 0959-2296

Best, Antony (1993) 'The alternative enemy': Britain and the Soviet threat in East Asia, 1932-40. In: The annual British International History Group conference, 0001-01-03. (Submitted)

Best, Antony (1991) The European War and its effect on British policy towards Japan. In: Fifty years after - the Pacific War re-examined, 0001-01-03, Lake Yamanaka, Japan, JPN. (Submitted)

Best, Antony (1990) Shigemitsu Mamoru as Ambassador to Great Britain, 1938-1941. International Studies papers (IS/1990/219). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK. (Submitted)