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British foreign policy under Sir Edward Grey

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.--Publisher description
Print Book, English, 1977
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 702 pages ; 24 cm
9780521213479, 0521213479
2524385
1. The Foreign Secretary, the Cabinet, Parliament and the parties K. G. Robbins; 2. The Foreign Office under Sir Edward Grey, 1905–1914 Zara Steiner; 3. Public opinion, the press and pressure groups K. G. Robbins; 4. Foreign policy and international law Clive Parry; 5. Great Britain and France, 1905–1911 K. A. Hamilton; 6. Great Britain and Russia, 1905 to the 1907 Convention Beryl Williams; 7. Constantinople and Asiatic Turkey, 1905–1914 Marian Kent; 8. Relations with Austria-Hungary and the Balkan states, 1905–1908 F. R. Bridge; 9. The Bosnian crisis D. W. Sweet; 10. The German background to Anglo-German relations, 1905–1914 Jonathan Steinberg; 11. Great Britain and Germany, 1905–1911 D. W. Sweet; 12. Great Britain and Russia, 1907–1914 D. W. Sweet and R. T. B. Langhorne; 13. The Balkans, 1909–1914 R. J. Crampton; 14 British policy during the Agadir Crisis of 1911 M. L. Dockrill; 15. Great Britain and Germany, 1911–1914 R. T. B. Langhorne; 16. Grey and the Tripoli War, 1911–1912 C. J. Lowe; 17. Great Britain and France, 1911–1914 K. A. Hamilton; 18. Great Britain and the Triple Entente on the eve of the Sarajevo Crisis Michael G. Ekstein; 19. Great Britain and China, 1905–1911 E. W. Edwards; 20. Great Britain, Japan and North-East Asia, 1905–1911 1. H. Nish; 21 China and Japan, 1911–1914 E. W. Edwards; 22. Great Britain and the New World, 1905–1914 P. A. R. Calvert; 23. The Sarajevo Crisis Michael G. Ekstein and Zara Steiner; 24. Italy and the Balkans, 1914–1915 C. J. Lowe; 25. Russia, Constantinople and the Straits, 1914–1915 Michael G. Ekstein; 26. Asiatic Turkey, 1914–1916 Marian Kent; 27. Japan and China, 1914–1916 I. H. Nish; 28. Anglo–American Relations: Mediation and 'Permanent Peace' C. M. Mason; 29. The Blockade Arthur Marsden; 30. The Foreign Office and the War Zara Steiner; 31. Foreign policy, Government structure and public opinion K. G. Robbins.