First published in 2001. This is part of the Foreign Policies of Great Power series, this is Volume I of British Foreign Policy from 1878 to 1902 and focuses on the reluctant imperialists. The work was published in two parts with the dividing line being 1902.

C. J. Lowe

ChapterI The Anatomy; ChapterII The Eastern Question, 1878-82; ChapterIII The Egyptian Lever; ChapterIV The Defence of India; ChapterV The Mediterranean Alliance; ChapterVI Salisbury and the Part Ition of East Africa, 1885-91; ChapterVII Britain and the Franco-Russian Alliance, 1888-92; ChapterVIII Liberal Foreign Policy, 1892-5; ChapterIX The Near East and Africa; ChapterX The Far East;