British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830–1960

T. G. Otte

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781107198852
• eBook ISBN: 9781108196079
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A fundamental truth about British power in the nineteenth century and beyond was that Britain was a global power. Her international position rested on her global economic, naval and political presence; and her foreign policy operated on a global scale. This volume throws into sharp relief the material elements of British power, but also its less tangible components, from Britain's global network of naval bases to the vast range of intersecting commercial, financial and intelligence relationships, which reinforced the country's political power. Leading historians reshape the scholarly debate surrounding the nature of British global power at a crucial period of transformation in international politics, and in so doing they deepen our understanding of the global nature of British power, the shifts in the international landscape from the high Victorian period to the 1960s, and the changing nature of the British state in this period.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Notes on the Contributors
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction: British World Policy and the White Queen’s Memory
• 1 The War Trade Intelligence Department and British Economic Warfare during the First World War
• 2 The British Empire and the Meaning of ‘Minimum Force Necessary’ in Colonial Counter-Insurgencies Operations, c.1857–1967
• 3 Yokohama for the British in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Hub for Imperial Defence and a Node of Influence for Change
• 4 ‘The Diplomatic Digestive Organ’: The Foreign Office As the Nerve Centre of Foreign Policy, c.1800–1940
• 5 Financial and Commercial Networks between Great Britain and South America during the Long Nineteenth Century
• 6 Britain through Russian Eyes: 1900–1914
• 7 Imperial Germany’s Naval Challenge and the Renewal of British Power
• 8 Views of War, 1914 and 1939: Second Thoughts
• 9 The Ambassadors, 1919–1939
• 10 The Tattered Ties that Bind: The Imperial General Staff and the Dominions, 1919–1939
• 11 Seeking a Family Consensus? Anglo-Dominion Relations and the Failed Imperial Conference of 1941
• 12 Imperial Hubs and their Limitations: British Assessments of Imposing Sanctions on Japan, 1937
• Index