Introduction; B.Simms & W.Mulligan Conflicting Visions: Foreign Affairs in Domestic Debates, 1660-1690; G.Glickmann Primacy Contested: Foreign and Domestic Policy in the Reign of William III; D.Onnekink Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of Scottish Succession; A.I.Macinnes The Development of the Executive and Foreign Policy, 1714-1760; A.Thompson European Great Power Politics in British Public Discourse, 1714-1763; B.Simms & D.Ahn Waging War: The Irish Military Establishment and the British Empire, 1688-1763; C.I.Mcgrath Europe, the American Crisis, and Scottish Evangelism: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in the Kirk?; G.Mailer Debating the Union in Foreign Fields: Ulster Unionism and the Importance of Britain's Place in the World, 1830-1870; J.Bew The Enduring Importance of Foreign Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; A.Brettle Radicalism, Free Trade, and Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain; A.Howe Gladstone and the Primacy of Foreign Policy; W.Mulligan Imagined Spaces: Nation, State and Territory in the British Colonial Empire, 1860-1914; D.Bell British Liberal Historians and the Primacy of Internationalism; C.Sylvest 'Chief of all offices': High Politics, Finance, and Foreign Policy, 1865-1914; T.Otte The 1910 Elections and the Primacy of Foreign Policy; P.P.O'Brien Patriotism and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1870-1914; P.Readman The Historiography of Inter-War Politics: Competing Conservative World Views in High Politics, 1924-1929; R.S.Grayson The Primacy of Foreign Policy? Britain in the Second World War; D.Edgerton Britain in Europe? Conservative and Labour Attitudes to European Integration since World War II; N.Crowson& J.Mckay Foreign Policy in the Labour Party Manifestos, 1945-1997: What Primacy?; A.Capet Conclusion; B.Simms & W.Mulligan Notes Index