Debating foreign policy in eighteenth-century Britain / Jeremy Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Jeremy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Public opinion.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--18th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the course of the eighteenth century Britain's status as a major maritime and commercial power steadily grew, and helped shape the global political, economic and military situation. Rather than offering a familiar narrative of Britain's eighteenth-century foreign policy, this book instead focuses upon how this policy was debated and viewed by British society.By probing the problems and issues surrounding the need to define and discuss Britain's foreign policy in public contexts, this book offers a fascinating insight into questions of perceived national interest, and how this developed

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Note on Dates, Spelling and Titles; Preface; Prologue: Documentary Culture and the Historian; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Debating Policy; 2 The Mechanisms of Debate; 3 The Extent of Debate; 4 The Quality of Debate; 5 The New Age of War, 1689-1714; 6 A Continental Dynasty: Britain and Hanover, 1714-60; 7 Rethinking Interventionism, 1740-55; 8 Strategic Culture and Imperial Warfare, 1754-63; 9 An Empire Under Challenge, 1763-83; 10 New Definitions and Problems, 1783-1815; 11 Conclusions: Debating Britain and Europe; Selected Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-57602-3

1-317-15427-4

1-317-15426-6

1-283-09036-8

9786613090362

1-4094-2610-6

9781315576022

OCLC:

710972901