Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000

DOOHWAN AHN Doctoral candidate, the University of Cambridge, UKDUNCAN BELL Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, the University of Cambridge, UKJOHN BEW Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London, UKADRIAN BRETTLE Doctoral candidate, the University of Virginia, USAANTOINE CAPET Head of British Studies, the University of Rouen, FranceNICHOLAS CROWSON Reader in Contemporary British History, the University of Birmingham, UKDAVID EDGERTON Hans Rausing Professor, Imperial College London, UKGABRIEL GLICKMAN British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford, UKRICHARD S. GRAYSON Head of Politics and Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKANTHONY HOWE Professor of Modern History, the University of East Anglia, UKALLAN I. MACINNES Professor of Early Modern History, University of Strathclye, UKGIDEON MAILER Title A Fellow, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, UKCHARLES IVAR MCGRATH Lecturer in the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, IrelandJAMES MCKAY Post-doctoral Research Fellow, the University of Birmingham, UKPHILLIPS O'BRIEN Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies, University of Glasgow, UKDAVID ONNEKINK Assistant Professor, Universities of Leiden and Utrecht, the NetherlandsT.G.OTTE Senior Lecturer in Diplomatic History, University of East Anglia, UKPAUL READMAN Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, King's College London,UKCASPER SYLVEST Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark ANDREW THOMPSON College Lecturer in History, Queens' College, Cambridge, UK

• 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 Power Politics 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 Foreign Policy, 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

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