The Conservative Party and Anglo-German relations, 1905 - 1914

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"The Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations, 1905-1914 provides the first ever major study examining the views of the Conservative Party towards the key aspects of Anglo-German relations from 1905 to 1914. Drawing on a wide variety of original sources, Frank McDonough examines the Conservative response to the German threat in a number of crucial spheres of political activity: leadership, parliamentary debate, electioneering, pressure-group activity and policy making. He argues that the response of the Conservative Party towards Germany, whether in connection with foreign policy, trade rivalry, the naval race or the conscription controversy, showed a marked absence of open hostility towards Germany. Overall, this study provides a powerful and overdue corrective to the traditional depiction of the Conservative Party in opposition as 'Scaremongers' and the chief source of Germanophobic views among the British political parties."--Jacket