The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000: How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Conflicting Visions: Foreign Affairs in Domestic Debate 1660–1689....Pages 15-31
Primacy Contested: Foreign and Domestic Policy in the Reign of William III....Pages 32-48
Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of the Spanish Succession....Pages 49-64
The Development of the Executive and Foreign Policy, 1714–1760....Pages 65-78
European Great Power Politics in British Public Discourse, 1714–1763....Pages 79-101
Waging War: The Irish Military Establishment and the British Empire, 1688–1763....Pages 102-118
Europe, the American Crisis, and Scottish Evangelism: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in the Kirk?....Pages 119-136
Debating the Union on Foreign Fields: Ulster Unionism and the Importance of Britain’s ‘Place in the World’, c. 1830-c. 1870....Pages 137-153
The Enduring Importance of Foreign Policy Dominance in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Politics....Pages 154-166
Radicalism, Free Trade, and Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain....Pages 167-180
Gladstone and the Primacy of Foreign Policy....Pages 181-196
Imagined Spaces: Nation, State, and Territory in the British Colonial Empire, 1860–1914....Pages 197-213
British Liberal Historians and the Primacy of Internationalism....Pages 214-231
‘Chief of All Offices’: High Politics, Finance, and Foreign Policy, 1865–1914....Pages 232-248
The 1910 Elections and the Primacy of Foreign Policy....Pages 249-259
Patriotism and the Politics of Foreign Policy, c. 1870-c. 1914....Pages 260-276
The Historiography of Inter-War Politics: Competing Conservative World Views in High Politics, 1924–1929....Pages 277-290
The Primacy of Foreign Policy? Britain in the Second World War....Pages 291-304
Britain in Europe? Conservative and Labour Attitudes to European Integration since the Second World War....Pages 305-318
Foreign Policy in the Labour Party Manifestos, 1945–1997: What Primacy?....Pages 319-335
Conclusion....Pages 336-339
Back Matter....Pages 340-345