British Foreigh Policy under Sir Edward Grey

First published in 1977 this book attempts a comprehensive and impartial account of British foreign policy from 1905 to 1916.

F. H. Hinsley (Edited by)

9780521090155, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 November 2008

716 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 4 cm, 1.04 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], British & Irish history [HBJD1]