Cover	1
	Contents	8
	List of Figures and Tables	10
	Acknowledgements	11
	Notes on Contributors	12
	1 Introduction	16
	2 Conflicting Visions: Foreign Affairs in Domestic Debate 1660–1689	30
	3 Primacy Contested: Foreign and Domestic Policy in the Reign of William III	47
	4 Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of the Spanish Succession	64
	5 The Development of the Executive and Foreign Policy, 1714–1760	80
	6 European Great Power Politics in British Public Discourse, 1714–1763	94
	7 Waging War: The Irish Military Establishment and the British Empire, 1688–1763	117
	8 Europe, the American Crisis, and Scottish Evangelism: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in the Kirk?	134
	9 Debating the Union on Foreign Fields: Ulster Unionism and the Importance of Britain’s ‘Place in the World’, c. 1830–c. 1870	152
	10 The Enduring Importance of Foreign Policy Dominance in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Politics	169
	11 Radicalism, Free Trade, and Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain	182
	12 Gladstone and the Primacy of Foreign Policy	196
	13 Imagined Spaces: Nation, State, and Territory in the British Colonial Empire, 1860–1914	212
	14 British Liberal Historians and the Primacy of Internationalism	229
	15 ‘Chief of All Offices’: High Politics, Finance, and Foreign Policy, 1865–1914	247
	16 The 1910 Elections and the Primacy of Foreign Policy	264
	17 Patriotism and the Politics of Foreign Policy, c. 1870–c. 1914	275
	18 The Historiography of Inter-War Politics: Competing Conservative World Views in High Politics, 1924–1929	292
	19 The Primacy of Foreign Policy? Britain in the Second World War	306
	20 Britain in Europe? Conservative and Labour Attitudes to European Integration since the Second World War	320
	21 Foreign Policy in the Labour Party Manifestos, 1945–1997: What Primacy?	334
	Conclusion	351
	Index	355