List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I: STRUGGLE

Chapter 1: Britain Joins Europe
?The Sun King
?William of Orange
?Exiles: Huguenots and Jacobites
Britain at the Heart of Europe, 1688?1748
?Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre
?Fontenoy, May 11, 1745
France and the Young Chevalier, 1744?46
?Symbols
The End of the Beginning
?On His Most Christian Majesty's Service
Money: Waging War with Gold
Britain: ?Breaking windows with guineas?
?Blowing Bubbles
France: The Insolvent Landlord

Chapter 2: Thinking, Pleasing, Seeing
?Portraying the Other: Rapin and Hamilton
Voyages of Intellectual Discovery
Travellers' Tales
?Le Blanc's England
?Mrs. Thrale and Madame Du Bocage
Fashionable Feelings: The Age of Pamela and Julie
?The Sincerest Form of Flattery
?The Other Pamela
Love, Hate and Ambivalence
?Drawing a Lesson
?Garrick's French Dancers
The French and Shakespeare: The Age of Voltaire

Chapter 3: The Sceptre of the World
Sugar and Slaves
The Wealth of the Indies
?A few acres of snow?
The Seven Years War, 1756?63
?Perfidious Albion
?Encouraging the Others
Pitt and Choiseul
Years of Victory, 1757?63
?Dead Heroes
Taking Possession of the Globe
Language: The Challenge to French Ascendancy

Chapter 4: The Revenger's Tragedy
Choiseul Plans Revenge
Taking the Great out of Britain: The Second War for America, 1776?83
?Enter Figaro
?Revolutionary Aristocrats
Saving Captain Asgill
The Biter Bit, 1783?90
?Cricket: The Tour of '89

Chapter 5: Ideas and Bayonets
Blissful Dawn
?Reflecting on Revolution
?Cannibals and Heroes
Jour de Gloire
?Exiles: The Revolution
Internal Injuries
From Unwinnable War to Uneasy Peace
?The First Kiss This Ten Years!
Culture Wars

Chapter 6: Changing the Face of the World
Napoleonic Visions
Earth's Best Hopes? British Resistance, 1803?5
?No Common War
?Relics of What Might Have Been
The Whale and the Elephant
The Continental System versus the Cavalry of St. George
?Captives
From the Tagus to the Berezina, 1807?12
Invasion, 1813?14
?Le Cimeti?re des Anglais
The End of the Hundred Years War, 1815
?Echoes of Waterloo

Part I: Conclusions and Disagreements
Origins
Culture
Politics
The Economy
Europe
The World
Interlude: The View from St. Helena

PART II: COEXISTENCE

Chapter 7: Plucking the Fruits of Peace
Our Friends the Enemy
?The British in Paris
?Fast Food ? l'anglaise
?Pau: Britain in B?arn
Romantic Encounters
?The French and Shakespeare: The Romantics
King Cotton, Queen Silk
?Navvies and ?Knobsticks?
Fog and Misery
Ally or ?Anti-France??

Chapter 8: The War That Never Was
A Beautiful Dream: The First Entente Cordiale, 1841?46
?God bless the narrow sea?: From Revolution to Empire, 1848?52
?The Prince-President's First Lady
?Exiles: Hugo and the Stormy Voices of France
?Such a faithful ally,? 1853?66
?Comrades in Arms
?Brumagem Bombs for Bonaparte
Tales of Two Cities
?Englishness in Paris: The Dressmaker and the Whore
?London through French Eyes
Spectators of Disaster, 1870?71
?Exiles: After the ?Terrible Year?

Chapter 9: Decadence and Regeneration
Into the Abysm
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