Brock Millman

Associate Professor
PhD, McGill University, 1992

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Research Interests

Brock Millman was a Western under-graduate prior to going on to the University of London and McGill. Before arriving at Western to teach, he taught at the University of Windsor, the University of British Columbia and the Royal Military College. He is the author of a number of articles and books on international relations and its domestic connections 1917-1940. Professor Millman is currently researching Canadian War Policy in the later war years, and examining, in particular, its domestic sources and its connections with post-war realities.

Publications


The Ill-Made Alliance. Anglo-Turkish Relations 1934-1940 (1998).

Description

Divided into three parts, The Ill-Made Alliance examines the roots and course of the Anglo-Turkish rapprochement in the years 1934-38; the economic, military, and politic factors in 1938-39 that inhibited development of the emerging alliance to the point where it might have been fully functional; and the collapse of the alliance in 1939-40.


Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain (2000).

Description

Millman argues that the way the British Government managed dissent during World War I is important for understanding the way that the war ended. He argues that, from humble beginnings in 1914, a comprehensive and effective system of suppression had been developed by the war's end in 1918, with a still greater level of suppression prepared but not implemented.


Pessimism and British War Policy 1916-1918 (2001).

Description

This analysis of British war policy considers alterations to the grand strategy during the last years of World War I. The argument is that war policy in this period was strongly affected by pessimism, even defeatism. In the aftermath of the defeats and disappointments of 1917, many could understand how the war could be lost, less how victory could be achieved. By the end of 1917, war policy had been revised so that it aimed less to win the war outright than to bring Germany to the conference table in a less exultant mood, whilst laying the bases for a peripheral war, essentially victorious on the continent, either in the last stages of World War I or during the ancicipated World War II. The major feature of this revised policy was that the focus of the war was to be shifted to the Eastern stage. It was hoped that Britain would be able to gain victories here to off-set Germany's conquests in Europe, and the jump-off points for periperal war. It was not believed that peace could be achieved before 1919. When, therefore, Britain "tumbled into peace" in 1918, policies had been undertaken in the East which were to have profound consequences.

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