Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The aftermath of war; 2. Years of isolation, 1783–6; 3. Trade, France and the Dutch, 1786–7; 4. To the banks of the Danube, 1787–90; 5. To the shore of the Pacific; 6. The failure of Britain's continental policy, 1780–91; 7. Anglo-French relations from the fall of the Bastille to the Declaration of Pillnitz, 1789–91; 8. Neutrality, 1791–2; 9. The coming of war, 1792–3; 10. The domestic context of foreign policy; 11. The international system.

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A study of British foreign policy in a crucial period of international political development, 1783–93.

Reviews

'This is an important and impressive book, in which a mastery of detail is allied to an appreciation of longer-term issues. It is diplomatic history written through a knowledge of sources, a regard for the importance of narrative in establishing the truth of events and a capacity to balance continuity and discontinuity in the interpretation of the past.' John Derry, The Times Literary Supplement