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Debating foreign policy in eighteenth-century Britain /

During the course of the eighteenth century Britain's status as a major maritime and commercial power steadily grew, and helped shape the global political, economic and military situation. Rather than offering a familiar narrative of Britain's eighteenth-century foreign policy, this book i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Black, Jeremy, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Note on Dates, Spelling and Titles; Preface; Prologue: Documentary Culture and the Historian; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Debating Policy; 2 The Mechanisms of Debate; 3 The Extent of Debate; 4 The Quality of Debate; 5 The New Age of War, 1689-1714; 6 A Continental Dynasty: Britain and Hanover, 1714-60; 7 Rethinking Interventionism, 1740-55; 8 Strategic Culture and Imperial Warfare, 1754-63; 9 An Empire Under Challenge, 1763-83; 10 New Definitions and Problems, 1783-1815; 11 Conclusions: Debating Britain and Europe; Selected Further Reading; Index.