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same theme comes from Germany.798 The changing situation
after Salisbury's retirement is skilfully analysed by Monger.709
Though no one any longer accepts the term 'splendid isolation'
as correctly describing British policy, it remains true that a new
xvillingness to undertake entangling alliances began -with the
Japanese treaty of igoa.800 One effect of these new alliances is
traced in a study of far eastern policy down to 19 15.801

European expansion involved policy in all sorts of new parts
of the globe, as British governments found themselves most
reluctantly drawn into actions which they believed to be un-
wise and uncalled for. British interests helped to bring Brazil
out of its old sleep,802 through the defence of established con-
cerns came to be involved in suppressing the Taiping rebel-
lion,803 and assisted powerfully in the early and later peaceful
invasion of Japan by westernization.804 The Mediterranean
formed a traditional area of operations,805 the Sudan a very
new but ominously active one;806 the attempts to gain a foot-
hold in Morocco owed more to the second than the first.807 The
rss Theodor A. Bayer, England wd der neue Kurs. Tubingen: Mohr:

1955- Pp- vii> 128.
7i* G« W. Monger, The End of Isolation: British foreign policy > JQOO -

7307. Edinburgh: Nelson: 1963. Pp. vi, 343. Rev: EHR 80, 638f.;

#J 7> 34off.

800 Zara Stciner, 'Great Britain and the creation of the Anglo-
Japanese alliance', JMH 31 (1959), 27-36. -Ian H. Nish, Yfo
Anglo-Japanese Alliance: the diplomacy of two island empires. L:
Athlone: 1966. Pp. xi, 420. Rev: EHR 82, B6gL

801 Peter Lowe, Great Britain and Japan, JQI/ - 19/5: a study of British
far eastern policy. L: Macmillan: 1969. Pp. 343.

802 R. Graham, Britain and the Onset of Modernisation in Brazil, 1850 -
10/4. GUP: 1968. Pp. xvi, 385.

808 John S. Gregory, Great Britain and the Taipings. L: Routledge:

1969, Pp, xvi, 271.
804 William G. Beasley, Great Britain and the Opening of Japan* 1834 -

/#5& L: Luzac & Co.: 1951. Pp. xix, 227. -Grace Fox, Britain

and Japan, 1858-1883. O: Clarendon: 1969. Pp. xviii, 627.
806Cedric J. Lowe, Salisbury and the Mediterranean, 1886-1836. L:

Routledge: 1965. Pp. x> 123. Rev: EHR 81, 87if.; VS$, i68f.
80* G, N. Sanderson, England, Europe, and the Upper Me, 1882 - 1^9.

Edinburgh UP: 1965. Pp. xiv, 456. Rev: EHR 82, i94f.
807 Alan J. P, Taylor, 'British policy in Morocco, 1886-1902',
(1951), 342-74.