An important collection of essays dealing with aspects of the execution of Britain’s foreign policy at a crucial period in her emergence as a major international power.
Several of the papers concentrate on the conduct of diplomacy, others on the struggles to influence policy, and collectively they offer insights into Britain’s policy goals, the working of the international system and the development of the British state during the period 1600-1800. The battles to influence policy offer particularly valuable insights into the nature of the state. This is a book that will be of considerable interest to both scholars and students of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century history.
One of the advantages of new technology is that it enables hard-to-find books to be made available again. We are pleased to present the first fruits of exploring John Donald’s classic backlist of academic titles. Not only do we hope to add more titles to the list but look forward to bringing in other titles suitable for this system as time goes on.
Chapters on: ’French Intervention in English and Dutch Politics, 1677-88’; ’The Economic Consequences of William III’; ’Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Age of Walpole: the Case of the Hessians’; ’«The True Principles of the Revolution»: the Duke of Newcastle and the Idea of the Old System’; Lord Rochford at Turin, 1749-55: A Pivotal Phase in Anglo-Italian Relations in the Eighteenth Century’; ’The Crown, Hanover and the Shift in British Foreign Policy in the 1760s’; ’George III, Hanover and the Regency Crisis’; ’Pitt, Grenville and the Control of British Foreign Policy in the 1790s’.
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