British Foreign and Imperial Policy, 1865-1919 (Questions and Analysis in History)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
SERIES PREFACE......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
BACKGROUND NARRATIVE......Page 10
ANALYSIS (1): HOW SUCCESSFUL WERE DISRAELI’S FOREIGN AND IMPERIAL POLICIES?......Page 12
Questions......Page 15
ANALYSIS (2): DID DISRAELI PUT INTO PRACTICE A COHERENT VISION OF BRITISH IMPERIAL INTERESTS IN HIS YEARS OF POWER?......Page 16
Source A: from Disraeli’s speech at the Crystal Palace, 24 June 1872.......Page 20
Source C: Disraeli’s private secretary, Montagu Corry, reports to his master on the Conservative victory in the Salford by-election, 19 April 1877.......Page 21
Worked answer......Page 22
BACKGROUND NARRATIVE......Page 24
ANALYSIS (1): HOW EFFECTIVE WAS GLADSTONE’S MANAGEMENT OF EXTERNAL CRISES?......Page 25
Questions......Page 29
ANALYSIS (2): DID GLADSTONIAN LIBERALISM OFFER A DISTINCTIVE APPROACH TO FOREIGN AND IMPERIAL AFFAIRS?......Page 30
Source A: a report of Gladstone’s speech at Dalkeith, 26 November 1879.......Page 34
, Lord Spencer, 22 June 1882. .........Page 35
Questions......Page 36
Worked answer......Page 37
BACKGROUND NARRATIVE......Page 39
ANALYSIS: WHY DID BRITAIN PARTICIPATE IN THE ‘SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA’ IN THE LAST TWO DECADES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY?......Page 40
Source A: a memorandum by Clement Hill, a Foreign Officeofficial, 20 October 1884.......Page 47
Source C: Sir Gerald Portal reports on East Africa for the Foreign Secretary, Lord Rosebery, August 1893.......Page 48
Source D: The Economist on the economic potential of Africa, 30 August 1890.......Page 49
Source C: Ronald Robinson and Jack Callagher on the causes of the partition of Africa, 1961.......Page 50
Worked answer......Page 51
BACKGROUND NARRATIVE......Page 53
ANALYSIS: HOW DID BRITAIN BECOME INVOLVED IN WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 1899?......Page 56
Questions......Page 59
Source B: Alfred Milner discusses the Dutch-speaking population of Cape Colony in his Graaff Reinet speech, 3 March 1898.......Page 60
Questions......Page 61
Source D: Alfred Milner writes to Joseph Chamberlain after the Bloemfontein Conference, 14 June 1899.......Page 62
Questions......Page 63
Worked answer......Page 64
ANALYSIS (1): HOW EFFECTIVE WAS LORD SALISBURY’S HANDLING OF THE PROBLEMS HE FACED AS FOREIGN SECRETARY?......Page 65
ANALYSIS (2): HOW ACCURATE IS THE TERM ‘SPLENDID ISOLATION’ AS A DESCRIPTION OF LORD SALISBURY’S FOREIGN POLICY?......Page 69
Source B: from Salisbury’s letter to Sir William White, British Ambassador at Constantinople, on the second Mediterranean agreement, 2 November 1887.......Page 74
Source D: Salisbury’s views on a proposal to join the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. An extract from a confidential cabinet memorandum, 29 May 1901.......Page 75
Worked answer......Page 76
BACKGROUND NARRATIVE......Page 78
ANALYSIS (1): WHY, AND WITH WHAT CONSEQUENCES, DID BRITISH GOVERNMENTS ESTABLISH LINKS WITH JAPAN, FRANCE AND RUSSIA BETWEEN 1902 AND 1907?......Page 79
ANALYSIS (2): DID BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY UNDERGO A ‘DIPLOMATIC REVOLUTION’ IN THE PERIOD 1902–7?......Page 83
Source A: Lord Lansdowne to Sir Claude Macdonald on the signing of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, 30 January 1902.......Page 86
Source B: Lord Cromer to Lord Lansdowne, 17 July 1903.......Page 87
Worked answer......Page 88
BACKGROUND NARRATIVE......Page 90
ANALYSIS (1): HOW FAR DID ANGLO-GERMAN RIVALRY INFLUENCE THE CONDUCT OF POLICY UNDER SIR EDWARD GREY?......Page 91
ANALYSIS (2): WAS THERE A REALISTIC ALTERNATIVE TO THE POLICY OF SIR EDWARD GREY IN 1914?......Page 94
Questions......Page 99
Source B: Lord Riddell, owner of the News of the World, on a meeting with Lloyd George, 2 August 1914.......Page 100
Questions......Page 101
Worked answer......Page 102
BACKGROUND NARRATIVE......Page 104
ANALYSIS (1): WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCED THE SHAPING OF BRITISH EXTERNAL POLICY DURING THE GREAT WAR?......Page 106
ANALYSIS (2): WHAT WAS THE LEGACY OF THE WAR OF 1914–18 FOR BRITAIN’S POSITION AS A GREAT POWER?......Page 111
Source B: Austen Chamberlain, a member of the War Cabinet, writes to his sister Ida, 26 October 1918.......Page 114
Questions......Page 115
Worked answer......Page 116
NOTES AND SOURCES......Page 117
SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 126
INDEX......Page 128