Ideology and foreign policy in early modern Europe (1650-1750)

Introduction; Response to introduction; 1: Absolutism, ideology and English foreign policy; 2: Partisan politics, history and the national interest (1700–1748) 1; 3: From ‘jealous emulation' to ‘cautious politics'; 4: The ideological context of the Dutch war (1672) 1; 5: Ideologies of interests in English foreign policy during the reign of Charles II; 6: Holy war and republican pacifism in the early-eighteenth-century Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania; 7: Justifying war; 8: Romeyn de Hooghe and the imagination of Dutch foreign policy; 9: A change of ideology in Imperial Spain? Spanish commercial policy with America and the change of dynasty (1648–1740) 1; 10: Mountains of iron and gold; 11: Balancing Europe; 12: ‘To restore and preserve the liberty of Europe'