Synopses & Reviews
External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour.
About the Author
WILLIAM MULLIGAN is Lecturer in Modern History at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of
The Making of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic (2005) and
The Origins of the First World War (2010).
BRENDAN SIMMS is Professor of the History of European International Relations, University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of several works on geopolitics such as The Impact of Napoleon (1997), The Struggle for Mastery in Germany (1998), Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (2001) and Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire (2007)
Table of Contents
Introduction;
B.Simms&
W.MulliganConflicting Visions: Foreign Affairs in Domestic Debates, 1660-1690; G.Glickmann
Primacy Contested: Foreign and Domestic Policy in the Reign of William III; D.Onnekink
Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of Scottish Succession; A.I.Macinnes
The Development of the Executive and Foreign Policy, 1714-1760; A.Thompson
European Great Power Politics in British Public Discourse, 1714-1763; B.Simms&D.Ahn
Waging War: The Irish Military Establishment and the British Empire, 1688-1763; C.I.Mcgrath
Europe, the American Crisis, and Scottish Evangelism: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in the Kirk?; G.Mailer
Debating the Union in Foreign Fields: Ulster Unionism and the Importance of Britain's Place in the World, 1830-1870; J.Bew
The Enduring Importance of Foreign Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; A.Brettle
Radicalism, Free Trade, and Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain; A.Howe
Gladstone and the Primacy of Foreign Policy; W.Mulligan
Imagined Spaces: Nation, State and Territory in the British Colonial Empire, 1860-1914; D.Bell
British Liberal Historians and the Primacy of Internationalism; C.Sylvest
'Chief of all offices': High Politics, Finance, and Foreign Policy, 1865-1914; T.Otte
The 1910 Elections and the Primacy of Foreign Policy; P.P.O'Brien
Patriotism and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1870-1914; P.Readman
The Historiography of Inter-War Politics: Competing Conservative World Views in High Politics, 1924-1929; R.S.Grayson
The Primacy of Foreign Policy? Britain in the Second World War; D.Edgerton
Britain in Europe? Conservative and Labour Attitudes to European Integration since World War II; N.Crowsonand J.Mckay
Foreign Policy in the Labour Party Manifestos, 1945-1997: What Primacy?; A.Capet
Conclusion; B.Simms&W.Mulligan
Notes
Index