Between Empire and Continent

<p> Prior to World War I Britain was at the center of global relations utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However as <em>Between Empire and Continent</em> demonstrates British foreign policy was in fact driven by a nexus of intra-British continental and imperial motivations. Recreating the often heated public sphere of London at the turn of the twentieth century this groundbreaking study carefully tracks the alliances conflicts and political maneuvering from which British foreign and security policy were born.</p>