British Foreign Policy Under Sir Edward Grey

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Francis Harry Hinsley
Cambridge University Press, Sep 15, 1977 - History - 702 pages
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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