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

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Conflicting Visions: Foreign Affairs in Domestic Debate 1660–1689

Chapter 3 Primacy Contested: Foreign and Domestic Policy in the Reign of William III

Chapter 4 Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of the Spanish Succession

Chapter 5 The Development of the Executive and Foreign Policy, 1714–1760

Chapter 6 European Great Power Politics in British Public Discourse, 1714–1763

Chapter 7 Waging War: The Irish Military Establishment and the British Empire, 1688–1763

Chapter 8 Europe, the American Crisis, and Scottish Evangelism: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in the Kirk?

Chapter 9 Debating the Union on Foreign Fields: Ulster Unionism and the Importance of Britain’s ‘Place in the World’, c. 1830-c. 1870

Chapter 10 The Enduring Importance of Foreign Policy Dominance in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Politics

Chapter 11 Radicalism, Free Trade, and Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 12 Gladstone and the Primacy of Foreign Policy

Chapter 13 Imagined Spaces: Nation, State, and Territory in the British Colonial Empire, 1860–1914

Chapter 14 British Liberal Historians and the Primacy of Internationalism

Chapter 15 ‘Chief of All Offices’: High Politics, Finance, and Foreign Policy, 1865–1914

Chapter 16 The 1910 Elections and the Primacy of Foreign Policy

Chapter 17 Patriotism and the Politics of Foreign Policy, c. 1870-c. 1914

Chapter 18 The Historiography of Inter-War Politics: Competing Conservative World Views in High Politics, 1924–1929

Chapter 19 The Primacy of Foreign Policy? Britain in the Second World War

Chapter 20 Britain in Europe? Conservative and Labour Attitudes to European Integration since the Second World War

Chapter 21 Foreign Policy in the Labour Party Manifestos, 1945–1997: What Primacy?

Chapter 22 Conclusion