Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000 (eBook)

DOOHWAN AHN Doctoral candidate, the University of Cambridge, UK DUNCAN BELL Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, the University of Cambridge, UK JOHN BEW Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London, UK ADRIAN BRETTLE Doctoral candidate, the University of Virginia, USA ANTOINE CAPET Head of British Studies, the University of Rouen, France NICHOLAS CROWSON Reader in Contemporary British History, the University of Birmingham, UK DAVID EDGERTON Hans Rausing Professor, Imperial College London, UK GABRIEL GLICKMAN British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford, UK RICHARD S. GRAYSON Head of Politics and Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ANTHONY HOWE Professor of Modern History, the University of East Anglia, UK ALLAN I. MACINNES Professor of Early Modern History, University of Strathclye, UK GIDEON MAILER Title A Fellow, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, UK CHARLES IVAR MCGRATH Lecturer in the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Ireland JAMES MCKAY Post-doctoral Research Fellow, the University of Birmingham, UK PHILLIPS O'BRIEN Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies, University of Glasgow, UK DAVID ONNEKINK Assistant Professor, Universities of Leiden and Utrecht, the Netherlands T.G.OTTE Senior Lecturer in Diplomatic History, University of East Anglia, UK PAUL READMAN Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, King's College London, UK CASPER SYLVEST Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark ANDREW THOMPSON College Lecturer in History, Queens' College, Cambridge, UK

Cover 1
Contents 8
List of Figures and Tables 10
Acknowledgements 11
Notes on Contributors 12
1 Introduction 16
2 Conflicting Visions: Foreign Affairs in Domestic Debate 1660–1689 30
3 Primacy Contested: Foreign and Domestic Policy in the Reign of William III 47
4 Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of the Spanish Succession 64
5 The Development of the Executive and Foreign Policy, 1714–1760 80
6 European Great Power Politics in British Public Discourse, 1714–1763 94
7 Waging War: The Irish Military Establishment and the British Empire, 1688–1763 117
8 Europe, the American Crisis, and Scottish Evangelism: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in the Kirk? 134
9 Debating the Union on Foreign Fields: Ulster Unionism and the Importance of Britain’s ‘Place in the World’, c. 1830–c. 1870 152
10 The Enduring Importance of Foreign Policy Dominance in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Politics 169
11 Radicalism, Free Trade, and Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain 182
12 Gladstone and the Primacy of Foreign Policy 196
13 Imagined Spaces: Nation, State, and Territory in the British Colonial Empire, 1860–1914 212
14 British Liberal Historians and the Primacy of Internationalism 229
15 ‘Chief of All Offices’: High Politics, Finance, and Foreign Policy, 1865–1914 247
16 The 1910 Elections and the Primacy of Foreign Policy 264
17 Patriotism and the Politics of Foreign Policy, c. 1870–c. 1914 275
18 The Historiography of Inter-War Politics: Competing Conservative World Views in High Politics, 1924–1929 292
19 The Primacy of Foreign Policy? Britain in the Second World War 306
20 Britain in Europe? Conservative and Labour Attitudes to European Integration since the Second World War 320
21 Foreign Policy in the Labour Party Manifestos, 1945–1997: What Primacy? 334
Conclusion 351
Index 355