Bruce Strang
Professor
and Dean of Arts
Telephone:
(204) 727-9701
Email: strangb@BrandonU.ca
Office: 101 Clark Hall-Original Building
Research Interests
Modern Italy, International Relations, Modern Britain
Currently working on a monograph on Italian foreign policy during the De Gasperi
Era
Teaching
Interests:
Modern
Europe, Modern Italy, 20th Century International Relations
Publications:
Books
On the Fiery
March: Mussolini Prepares for War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
Senior
Historical Consultant, Historica: 1000 Years of Our Lives and Times, Canadian
Edition
Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2006.
Articles
“Out of Africa? The
Gallimberti Affair and Anglo-Italian Relations, 1949-1950.” Intelligence
& National Security, forthcoming.
“Pride and
Prejudice: Mussolini and the British Way in Warfare,” in Keith Nielson and
Greg Kennedy (eds.), The British Way in
Warfare: Power and the International System, 1856-1956: Essays in Honour of
David French. London: Ashgate, 2009, forthcoming.
“The Spirit of
Ulysses? British Appeasement in the 1930s.” Diplomacy
& Statecraft. 19.3 (September 2008), pp. 481-526.
“‘The Worst of
All Worlds:’ Oil Sanctions and the Italian Invasion of Abyssinia, 1935-6.” Diplomacy & Statecraft. 19.2 (June 2008), pp. 210-235.
“John Bull in
Search of a Suitable Russia: British Foreign Policy and the Failure of the 1939
Anglo-French-Soviet Alliance Negotiations.” Canadian Journal of History.
41.1 (Spring/Summer 2006), pp. 47-84.
“Imperial Dreams:
the Mussolini-Laval Accords of January 1935.” Historical
Journal. 44.3 (September 2001), pp. 799-809.
“War and Peace:
Mussolini’s Road to Munich.” Diplomacy
& Statecraft. 10.2/3 (March/November 1999), pp. 160-90. This article
also appears in Igor Lukes and Erik Goldstein (eds.), The
Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II. London: Frank Cass, 1999.
“Once More unto the
Breach: Britain’s Guarantee to Poland, March, 1939.” Journal
of Contemporary History. 31.4 (October 1996), pp. 721-752.
“Two Unequal
Tempers: Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes, Sir Nevile Henderson and British Foreign
Policy, 1938-9.” Diplomacy and
Statecraft. 5.1 (March 1994), pp. 107-137.
“Deep and Surface
Learning and University Teaching.” The
McMaster Courier. September 1997. This article appeared as a peer-reviewed
column under the aegis of the Centre for Leadership in Learning.
Articles
in Collected Works
“‘A Sad
Commentary on World Ethics:’ the United States and Italy during the Ethiopian
Crisis” in Bruce Strang (ed.), Collision of Empires: The Ethiopian War and
its International Impact., forthcoming.
“The Arab
Empire,” “Architecture, Art, and War, 1300-1400,” “God and Empire,
600-1300,” “The Byzantine Empire,” “New Horizons, 1300-1400,” Louis
XIV and the Ascendancy of France,” in Historical
Atlas. Elanora Heights: Millenium Publishing, 2008, accepted for publication
in final form.
“Introduction,”
in Historica: 1000 Years of Our Lives
and Times, Canadian
Edition. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2006, pp. 16-21.
Courses
Taught:
54:397 The
Fascist Era