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List of contents
1. The German Navy Laws of 1898 and 1900. 2. Germany as a Neighbour, 1898-1903. 3. The ‘Diplomatic Revolution’, 1904. 4. The Moroccan Question, 1905-6. 5. The Coming of the ‘All-Big Gun’ Ship, 1905-6. 6. The Second Hague Conference, 1907. 7. The Anglo-Russian Agreement, 1907. 8. The German Emperor, Bülow, and Metternich; March-August, 1908. 9. The Bosnian Crisis and Anglo-German Relations, 1908-9. 10. The Question of German Acceleration, 1909. 11. The Debate on the British Naval Estimates, March 1909. 12. Later History of the Question of German Acceleration, 1909-12. 13. Negotiations at Cross-Purposes I. April-June, 1909. 14. Negotiations at Cross-Purposes II. August-November, 1909. 15. Grey’s Proposal for an Exchange of Information. I. 1910. 16. Grey’s Proposal for an Exchange of Information. II. 1910-11. 17. The Agadir Crisis, 1911. 18. The Haldane Mission, 1912. 19. Last Attempts at a Political Agreement. 20. Mr. Churchill and a ‘Naval Holiday’. I. 1912. 21. The Mediterranean and Questions of Imperial Defence, 1912-13. 22. The Balkan Wars and Anglo-German Relations. 23. Mr. Churchill and a ‘Naval Holiday’. II. 1913-14. 24. The Last Months, 1914 Chronological Summary of Events, 1896-1914.
About the author
E.L. Woodward
Summary
First published in 1935, in this volume E.L. Woodward reconstructs with his usual painstaking industry the various phases of Anglo-German naval relations from the enactment of the German navy laws of 1898-1900 to the months of the apparent détente just before the outbreak of war in 1914.
