Between Empire and Continent : : British Foreign Policy before the First World War / / Andreas Rose.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Rose, Andreas,
• MitwirkendeR: Clark, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in British and Imperial History ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (542 p.)

Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However, as Between Empire and Continent demonstrates, British foreign policy was in fact driven by a nexus of intra-British, continental and imperial motivations. Recreating the often heated public sphere of London at the turn of the twentieth century, this groundbreaking study carefully tracks the alliances, conflicts, and political maneuvering from which British foreign and security policy were born.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Public Sphere in Edwardian London -- Chapter 2 The Policy of Drift? Balance of Power, Concert of Europe, or Political Power Blocs? -- Chapter 3 Safety First: The Politics of Defence and the Realities behind Diplomacy -- Chapter 4 Imperial Defence or Continental Commitment? -- Chapter 5 Foreign Policy under Lansdowne and Balfour -- Chapter 6 The Myth of Continuity: Foreign Policy under Edward Grey -- Chapter 7 The Committee of Four: The German Peril Revisited -- Chapter 8 At the Cost of Stability: The Anglo-Russian Convention and its European Implications -- Chapter 9 ‘More Russian than the Russians’? British Balkan Diplomacy and the Annexation of Bosnia 1908/9 -- Conclusion and Perspectives: The Triad of British Foreign Politics -- Bibliography -- Index