Jeremy Black
Ashgate
Hardback
320
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 instead focuses upon how this policy was debated and viewed by British society.By probing the problems and issues surrounding the need to define and discuss Britain's foreign policy in public contexts this book offers a fascinating insight into questions of perceived national interest and how this developed and evolved over the course of the eighteenth century. This work complements the author's other studies by joining the institutional focus seen there to a wider assessment of public politics and print culture and as such will make a central contribution to studies of eighteenth-century Europe.
Ashgate
Hardback
320
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 instead focuses upon how this policy was debated and viewed by British society.By probing the problems and issues surrounding the need to define and discuss Britain's foreign policy in public contexts this book offers a fascinating insight into questions of perceived national interest and how this developed and evolved over the course of the eighteenth century. This work complements the author's other studies by joining the institutional focus seen there to a wider assessment of public politics and print culture and as such will make a central contribution to studies of eighteenth-century Europe.