Sked, Alan


Professor Alan Sked  

Department

Position held

Department of International History

Professor in International History

Experience keywords:

post-World War II Britain; Habsburg monarchy; history of race, sex and slavery; British, American, European Union and European history

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Britain; Europe

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7112

Publications

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2012

Sked, Alan (2012) Social attitudes and legal constraints: army life in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1890-1914. Journal on European history of law, 3 (2). ISSN 2042-6402

2010

Sked, Alan (2010) Radetzky: imperial victor and military genius. I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9781848856776

Sked, Alan (2010) Austria and the "Galician massacres" of 1846. In: Hobelt, Lothar and Otte, Thomas G., (eds.) A living anachronism? European diplomacy and the Habsburg monarchy. Bohlau, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 9783205785101

2009

Sked, Alan (2009) Book review: Western intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40: from Red Square to the Left Bank. Journal of contemporary history, 44 (4). pp. 779-780. ISSN 0022-0094

2008

Sked, Alan (2008) Benedek, Breinl and the "Galician Horrors" of 1846. In: Peters, L. and Rady, M., (eds.) Resistance, rebellion and revolution in Hungary and Central Europe: commemorating 1956. University of London - School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, UK, pp. 87-98. ISBN 9780903425797

Sked, Alan (2008) Metternich and Austria: an evaluation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA. ISBN 9781403991140

2006

Sked, Alan (2006) Talleyrand and England, 1792-1838: a reinterpretation. Diplomacy and statecraft, 17 (4). pp. 647-664. ISSN 0959-2296

2005

Sked, Alan (2005) Poor intelligence, flawed results: Metternich, Radetzky and the crisis-management of Austria's "occupation" of Ferrara in 1847. In: Jackson, Peter and Siegel, Jennifer, (eds.) Intelligence and statecraft: the use and limits of intelligence in international society. Praeger Publishers, Westport CT, pp. 53-86. ISBN 027597295X

2004

Sked, Alan (2004) Metternich and the Ficquelmont mission of 1847-48: the decision against reform in Lombardy-Venetia. Central Europe, 2 (1). pp. 15-46. ISSN 1479-0963

Sked, Alan (2004) Living on one's wits: J. A. Blackwell's vain attempts to become British Consul in Hungary. In: Peter, Laszlo and Rady, Martyn, (eds.) British-Hungarian relations since 1848. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, London, UK, pp. 13-31. ISBN 9780903425735

2003

Sked, Alan (2003) Mirror images: Kossuth and Jelacic in 1848-49. In: Peter, Laszlo and Rady, Martyn and Sherwood, Peter, (eds.) Lajos Kossuth sent word.... Hungarian Cultural Centre, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, London, UK, pp. 135-182. ISBN 9780903425674

2002

Sked, Alan (2002) The political parties. In: Hollowell, Jonathan, (ed.) Britain since 1945. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp. 40-58. ISBN 9780631209683

2001

Sked, Alan (2001) The decline and fall of the Habsburg empire 1815-1918. Longman, London, UK. ISBN 9780582356665

2000

Sked, Alan (2000) Great Britain and the continental revolutions of 1848. In: Birke, Adolf M. and Brechtken, Magnus and Searle, Alaric, (eds.) An Anglo-German dialogue: the Munich lectures on the history of international relations. K. G. Saur Verlag, München, Germany, pp. 43-55. ISBN 9783598214172

1997

Sked, Alan (1997) An intelligent person's guide to post-war Britian. Duckworth, London, UK. ISBN 9780715627495

1994

Sked, Alan (1994) Nationalism in the Fin de Siecle Hapsburg Monarchy. European Review, 2 (3). pp. 236-246. ISSN 1062-7987

1992

Sked, Alan (1992) A proposal for the European Union. In: Robertson, Patrick, (ed.) Reshaping Europe in the twenty-first century. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780312068899

1987

Sked, Alan (1987) The study of international relations: a historian's view. Millennium: journal of international studies, 16 (2). pp. 251-262. ISSN 0305-8298

Sked, Alan (1987) Britain's decline: problems and perspectives. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780631150848

1986

Sked, Alan (1986) A patriot for whom? Colonel Redl and a question of identity. History today, 36 (7). pp. 9-14. ISSN 0018-2753

1983

Sked, Alan (1983) Metternich. History today, 33 (6). pp. 43-47. ISSN 0018-2753

1981

Sked, Alan (1981) Historians, the nationality question and the downfall of the Hapsburg Empire. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Fifth Series), 31 pp. 175-193. ISSN 0080-4401

1979

Sked, Alan, (ed.) (1979) Europe's balance of power, 1815-1848. Macmillan. ISBN 9780333230862

Sked, Alan and Cook, Chris (1979) Post-war Britain: a political history. Harvester Press, Brighton, UK. ISBN 9780064963220

Sked, Alan (1979) The survival of the Habsburg Empire: Radetzky, the Imperial Army, and the Class War, 1848. Longman, London, UK. ISBN 9780582507111

Sked, Alan (1979) The Metternich system, 1815-1848. In: Sked, Alan, (ed.) Europe's balance of power, 1815-1848. Barnes & Noble, New York, USA. ISBN 9780064963237

1978

Sked, Alan (1978) The liberal tradition and the Lib-Lab Pact. West European politics, 1 (2). pp. 193-207. ISSN 1743-9655

1976

Sked, Alan (1976) Clausewitz. In: de Bono, Edward, (ed.) The greatest thinkers: the thirty minds that changed our civilization. Putnam Publishing Group, New York, USA. ISBN 9780399117626

Sked, Alan (1976) Nietzsche. In: de Bono, Edward, (ed.) The greatest thinkers: the thirty minds that changed our civilization. Putnam Publishing Group, New York, USA. ISBN 9780399117626

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