Between Empire and Continent: British Foreign Policy before the First World War

Between Empire and Continent: British Foreign Policy before the First World War
ISBN-10
1785335790
ISBN-13
9781785335792
Category
History
Pages
542
Language
English
Published
2017-05-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Andreas Rose

Description

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.

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