The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000

How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain

William Mulligan, Brendan Simms

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780230574724
• eBook ISBN: 9780230289628
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

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