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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254765303321

Autore

Callister Graeme

Titolo

War, Public Opinion and Policy in Britain, France and the Netherlands, 1785-1815 / / by Graeme Callister

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319495897

3319495895

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 348 p.)

Collana

War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850, , 2634-6702

Disciplina

940.903

Soggetti

Europe - History - 1492-

Military history

France - History

Europe - Politics and government

World politics

History of Early Modern Europe

Military History

History of France

European Politics

Political History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, 1785-1815 -- 2. France, Britain and the Netherlands, 1785-1815 -- 3. Public Opinion and National Identity in the Netherlands -- 4. Public Opinion, National Identity and Dutch Foreign Policy -- 5.'Canaux, Canards, Canaille'? French Public Opinion and the Netherlands -- 6. Public Opinion, National Identity and French Foreign Policy -- 7. Another 'Other': British Public Opinion, National Identity and the Netherlands -- 8. Public Opinion, National Identity and British Foreign Policy -- 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a detailed investigation of the influence of public opinion and national identity on the foreign policies of France, Britain and the Netherlands in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth



centuries. The quarter-century of upheaval and warfare in Europe between the outbreak of the French Revolution and fall of Napoleon saw important developments in understandings of nation, public, and popular sovereignty, which spilled over into how people viewed their governments-and how governments viewed their people. By investigating the ideas and impulses behind Dutch, French and British foreign policy in a comparative context across a range of royal, revolutionary and republican regimes, this book offers new insights into the importance of public opinion and national identities to international relations at the end of the long eighteenth century.