The primacy of foreign policy in British history,1660-2000: how strategic concerns shaped modern Britain

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, andeconomy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour. INDICE: Introduction; B.Simms & W.Mulligan - Conflicting Visions: Foreign Affairs in Domestic Debates, 1660-1690; G.Glickmann - Primacy Contested: Foreign and Domestic Policy in the Reign of William III; D.Onnekink - Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of Scottish Succession; A.I.Macinnes - The Development of the Executive and Foreign Policy, 1714-1760; A.Thompson - European Great PowerPolitics in British Public Discourse, 1714-1763; B.Simms & D.Ahn - Waging War: The Irish Military Establishment and the British Empire, 1688-1763; C.I.Mcgrath - Europe, the American Crisis, and Scottish Evangelism: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in the Kirk?; G.Mailer - Debating the Union in Foreign Fields: Ulster Unionism and the Importance of Britain's Place in the World, 1830-1870; J.Bew - The Enduring Importance of Foreign Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century;A.Brettle - Radicalism, Free Trade, and Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain; A.Howe - Gladstone and the Primacy of Foreign Policy; W.Mulligan - Imagined Spaces: Nation, State and Territory in the British Colonial Empire,1860-1914; D.Bell - British Liberal Historians and the Primacy of Internationalism; C.Sylvest - 'Chief of all offices': High Politics, Finance, and ForeignPolicy, 1865-1914; T.Otte - The 1910 Elections and the Primacy of Foreign Policy; P.P.O'Brien - Patriotism and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1870-1914; P.Readman - The Historiography of Inter-War Politics: Competing Conservative World Views in High Politics, 1924-1929; R.S.Grayson - The Primacy of Foreign Policy? Britain in the Second World War; D.Edgerton - Britain in Europe? Conservative and Labour Attitudes to European Integration since World War II; N.Crowson& J.Mckay - Foreign Policy in the Labour Party Manifestos, 1945-1997: What Primacy?; A.Capet - Conclusion; B.Simms & W.Mulligan - Notes - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57472-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 360
• Fecha Publicación: 03/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés