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

360 Pages·2010·1.354 MB·English

by  William Mulligan, Brendan Simms (eds.)

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

How Strategic Concerns Shaped
Modern Britain
Edited by

William Mulligan

and
Brendan Simms
The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000
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The Primacy of Foreign
Policy in British History,
1660–2000
How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern
Britain
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William Mulligan
LecturerinModernHistory,UniversityCollegeDublin
and
Brendan Simms
ProfessoroftheHistoryofInternationalRelations,UniversityofCambridge
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables ix
Acknowledgements x
NotesonContributors xi
1 Introduction 1
BrendanSimmsandWilliamMulligan
2 ConflictingVisions:ForeignAffairsinDomesticDebate
1660–1689 15
GabrielGlickman
3 PrimacyContested:ForeignandDomesticPolicyintheReign
ofWilliamIII 32
DavidOnnekink
4 Anglo-ScottishUnionandtheWaroftheSpanishSuccession 49
AllanI.Macinnes
5 TheDevelopmentoftheExecutiveandForeignPolicy,
1714–1760 65
AndrewC.Thompson
6 EuropeanGreatPowerPoliticsinBritishPublicDiscourse,
1714–1763 79
DoohwanAhnandBrendanSimms
7 WagingWar:TheIrishMilitaryEstablishmentandtheBritish
Empire,1688–1763 102
CharlesIvarMcGrath
8 Europe,theAmericanCrisis,andScottishEvangelism:The
PrimacyofForeignPolicyintheKirk? 119
GideonMailer
9 DebatingtheUniononForeignFields:UlsterUnionism
andtheImportanceofBritain’s‘PlaceintheWorld’,
c.1830–c.1870 137
JohnBew
10 TheEnduringImportanceofForeignPolicyDominancein
Mid-Nineteenth-CenturyPolitics 154
AdrianBrettle
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11 Radicalism,FreeTrade,andForeignPolicyin
Mid-Nineteenth-CenturyBritain 167
AnthonyHowe
12 GladstoneandthePrimacyofForeignPolicy 181
WilliamMulligan
13 ImaginedSpaces:Nation,State,andTerritoryintheBritish
ColonialEmpire,1860–1914 197
DuncanBell
14 BritishLiberalHistoriansandthePrimacyofInternationalism 214
CasperSylvest
15 ‘ChiefofAllOffices’:HighPolitics,Finance,andForeign
Policy,1865–1914 232
T.G.Otte
16 The1910ElectionsandthePrimacyofForeignPolicy 249
PhillipsPaysonO’Brien
17 PatriotismandthePoliticsofForeignPolicy,c.1870–c.1914 260
PaulReadman
18 TheHistoriographyofInter-WarPolitics:Competing
ConservativeWorldViewsinHighPolitics,1924–1929 277
RichardS.Grayson
19 ThePrimacyofForeignPolicy?BritainintheSecond
WorldWar 291
DavidEdgerton
20 BritaininEurope?ConservativeandLabourAttitudesto
EuropeanIntegrationsincetheSecondWorldWar 305
NicholasCrowsonandJamesMcKay
21 ForeignPolicyintheLabourPartyManifestos,1945–1997:
WhatPrimacy? 319
AntoineCapet
Conclusion 336
BrendanSimmsandWilliamMulligan
Index 340
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
6.1 Titlesperdecade,1475–1800 81
6.2 EighteenthCenturyCollectionsOnline,1714–1725 85
6.3 EighteenthCenturyCollectionsOnline,1726–1731 87
6.4 EighteenthCenturyCollectionsOnline,1732–1740 88
6.5 EighteenthCenturyCollectionsOnline,1741–1748 90
6.6 EighteenthCenturyCollectionsOnline,1749–1763 91
6.7 EuropeorAmerica,1714–1763 92
6.8 Empires,1714–1800 94
6.9 EighteenthCenturyCollectionsOnline,1714–1763 95
Tables
7.1 AnaccountoftheregimentsontheIrishEstablishmentthat
havebeenemployedinEnglandandabroad 110
7.2 ComparativeviewofthearmyontheIrishEstablishment,
1750–1770,withregimentsathomeandabroad 110
12.1 Expenditureinmillions,1865–1890 188
12.2 Army,naval,andcivilexpenditureas%oftotalgovernment
expenditure 189
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