British Foreign Policy Under Sir Edward GreyFrancis Harry Hinsley Until 1970 it would have been premature to attempt a comprehensive and impartial account of British foreign policy from 1905 to 1916, during the secretaryship of Sir Edward Grey. Apart from the difficulty of passing judgement on matters that were still controversial, the confidential archives of the British government for the years after 1905 did not begin to become available until the 1950s. By 1970, however, scholars had thoroughly digested the contents of these voluminous records up to 1916, and a statement of their findings was even overdue. In this volume many of the British historians who have been in the forefront of the research report on their work. They establish the facts about a period which saw fundamental changes in Great Britain's position in the world, and offer assessments of the British government's contribution to such important developments as the evolution of the Anglo-French Entente, Anglo-German rivalry before 1914, the outbreak of the first World War and the origin of the League of Nations. |
Contents
ZARA STEINER | 22 |
Public opinion the press and pressure groups K G ROBBINS | 70 |
Foreign policy and international law CLIVE PARRY | 89 |
Great Britain and France 19051911 K A HAMILTON | 113 |
Great Britain and Russia 1905 to the 1907 Convention | 133 |
Relations with AustriaHungary and the Balkan states 19051908 | 165 |
The Bosnian crisis D W SWEET | 178 |
II | 196 |
Great Britain Japan and NorthEast Asia 19051911 I H NISH | 362 |
China and Japan 19111914 E W EDWARDS | 368 |
Great Britain and the New World 19051914 P A R CALVERT | 382 |
The Sarajevo Crisis MICHAEL G EKSTEIN AND ZARA STEINER | 397 |
Italy and the Balkans 19141915 THE LATE C J LOWE | 411 |
Russia Constantinople and the Straits 19141915 | 423 |
Asiatic Turkey 19141916 MARIAN KENT | 436 |
Japan and China 19141916 I H NISH | 452 |
Great Britain and Germany 19051911 D W SWEET | 216 |
R T B LANGHORNE | 236 |
The Balkans 19091914 R J CRAMPTON | 256 |
14 | 268 |
Grey and the Tripoli War 19111912 THE LATE C J LOWE | 324 |
Great Britain and the Triple Entente on the eve of the Sarajevo Crisis MICHAEL G EKSTEIN | 342 |
THE FAR EAST AND THE NEW WORLD | 349 |
Great Britain and China 19051911 E W EDWARDS | 351 |
Mediation and Permanent Peace C M MASON | 466 |
The Blockade ARTHUR MARSDEN | 488 |
The Foreign Office and the War ZARA STEINER | 516 |
Foreign policy Government structure and public opinion K G ROBBINS | 532 |
Notes | 547 |
Bibliography | 662 |
Index | 692 |
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