Table of Contents:
  • The means of policy
  • The themes of policy
  • The changes of a new reign, 1727-31
  • Facing a new situation, 1731-3
  • The excise crisis, the War of the Polish Succession, and British foreign policy, 1733
  • Neutrality in Europe, 1734-5
  • Without allies, 1736-8
  • To war with Spain, 1738-9
  • War and the fall of the ministry, 1740-2
  • A patriot foreign policy?, 1742-4
  • Return of the old corps, 1744.