ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in this book. The book discusses that so for Britain's relationship with Europe in the eighteenth century. The topic had been overshadowed during the 1990s and early 2000s by Atlantic history, and its argument that Britain had an Atlantic destiny and that this transoceanic activity and imperialism was Britain's most significant geopolitical contribution in the eighteenth-century world and more generally. In contrast, in the late 2000s, a number of works pressed the case for Britain's European identity in the eighteenth century and for the values of interventionist diplomatic and military policies then. It is unclear how to advance debates, notably on the values of the Hanoverian connection or Continental interventionism. Britain in 1713, at the close of the War of the Spanish Succession, can be seen as suffering from overreach. Eighteenth-century debates over foreign policy revealed persistent differences and a significant sense of difference between Britain and Hanover.
