Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Black, Professor Jeremy

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2011

266

Dura

Inglês

9780754658672

15 a 20 dias

It was during the course of the eighteenth century that Britain status as a major maritime and commercial power was forged, shaping the political, economic and military policies of the nation for the next two centuries. This title examines how British political culture and public debate in this period responded to.
Contents: Preface; Prologue: documentary culture and the historian; Introduction: debating policy; The mechanisms of debate; The extent of debate; The quality of debate; The new age of war, 1689a "1714; A continental dynasty: Britain and Hanover, 1714a "60; Rethinking interventionism, 1740a "55; Strategic culture and imperial warfare, 1754a "63; A empire under challenge, 1763a "83; New definitions and problems, 1783a "1815; Conclusions: debating Britain and Europe; Selected further reading; Index.