The Policy of the Entente

The Policy of the
Entente
Essays on the Determinants of
British Foreign Policy
1904-1914
KEITH M. WILSON
Lecturer in Modern History, University of Leeds

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Contents
Acknowledgements page viii
Introduction 1
1 The Poverty of the Entente Policy 4
2 The Politics of Liberal Foreign Policy I 17
3 The Politics of Liberal Foreign Policy II 37
4 The Dissimulation of the Balance of Power 59
5 The Fiction of the Free Hand 85
6 The Invention of Germany 100
7 The Military Entente with France 121
8 The Cabinet's Decision for War, 1914 135
Notes 148
Bibliography 187
Index 197


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