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

How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain

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  1. William Mulligan

    1. University College Dublin, Ireland

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  2. Brendan Simms

    1. University of Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Brendan Simms, William Mulligan
    Pages 1-14

  3. Conflicting Visions: Foreign Affairs in Domestic Debate 1660–1689

    • Gabriel Glickman
    Pages 15-31

  4. Primacy Contested: Foreign and Domestic Policy in the Reign of William III

    • David Onnekink
    Pages 32-48

  5. Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of the Spanish Succession

    • Allan I. Macinnes
    Pages 49-64

  6. The Development of the Executive and Foreign Policy, 1714–1760

    • Andrew C. Thompson
    Pages 65-78

  7. European Great Power Politics in British Public Discourse, 1714–1763

    • Doohwan Ahn, Brendan Simms
    Pages 79-101

  8. Waging War: The Irish Military Establishment and the British Empire, 1688–1763

    • Charles Ivar McGrath
    Pages 102-118

  9. Europe, the American Crisis, and Scottish Evangelism: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in the Kirk?

    • Gideon Mailer
    Pages 119-136

  10. Debating the Union on Foreign Fields: Ulster Unionism and the Importance of Britain’s ‘Place in the World’, c. 1830-c. 1870

    • John Bew
    Pages 137-153

  11. The Enduring Importance of Foreign Policy Dominance in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Politics

    • Adrian Brettle
    Pages 154-166

  12. Radicalism, Free Trade, and Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain

    • Anthony Howe
    Pages 167-180

  13. Gladstone and the Primacy of Foreign Policy

    • William Mulligan
    Pages 181-196

  14. Imagined Spaces: Nation, State, and Territory in the British Colonial Empire, 1860–1914

    • Duncan Bell
    Pages 197-213

  15. British Liberal Historians and the Primacy of Internationalism

    • Casper Sylvest
    Pages 214-231

  16. ‘Chief of All Offices’: High Politics, Finance, and Foreign Policy, 1865–1914

    • T. G. Otte
    Pages 232-248

  17. The 1910 Elections and the Primacy of Foreign Policy

    • Phillips Payson O’Brien
    Pages 249-259

  18. Patriotism and the Politics of Foreign Policy, c. 1870-c. 1914

    • Paul Readman
    Pages 260-276

  19. The Historiography of Inter-War Politics: Competing Conservative World Views in High Politics, 1924–1929

    • Richard S. Grayson
    Pages 277-290

  20. The Primacy of Foreign Policy? Britain in the Second World War

    • David Edgerton
    Pages 291-304
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About this book

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.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • University College Dublin, Ireland

    William Mulligan

  • University of Cambridge, UK

    Brendan Simms

About the editors

DOOHWAN AHN Doctoral candidate, the University of Cambridge, UK DUNCAN BELL Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, the University of Cambridge, UK JOHN BEW Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London, UK ADRIAN BRETTLE Doctoral candidate, the University of Virginia, USA ANTOINE CAPET Head of British Studies, the University of Rouen, France NICHOLAS CROWSON Reader in Contemporary British History, the University of Birmingham, UK DAVID EDGERTON Hans Rausing Professor, Imperial College London, UK GABRIEL GLICKMAN British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford, UK RICHARD S. GRAYSON Head of Politics and Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ANTHONY HOWE Professor of Modern History, the University of East Anglia, UK ALLAN I. MACINNES Professor of Early Modern History, University of Strathclye, UK GIDEON MAILER Title A Fellow, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, UK CHARLES IVAR MCGRATH Lecturer in the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Ireland JAMES MCKAY Post-doctoral Research Fellow, the University of Birmingham, UK PHILLIPS O'BRIEN Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies, University of Glasgow, UK DAVID ONNEKINK Assistant Professor, Universities of Leiden and Utrecht, the Netherlands T.G.OTTE Senior Lecturer in Diplomatic History, University of East Anglia, UK PAUL READMAN Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, King's College London, UK CASPER SYLVEST Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark ANDREW THOMPSON College Lecturer in History, Queens' College, Cambridge, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000

  • Book Subtitle: How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain

  • Editors: William Mulligan, Brendan Simms

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289628

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57472-4Published: 20 October 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36547-0Published: 20 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28962-8Published: 20 October 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 345

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Political Science, Modern History, Foreign Policy

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