This review explores recent historiography on the international and imperial dimensions of nineteenth-century British politics. In particular, it charts historians’ attempts to assess how British engagement with politics overseas – in Europe, the empire, and the ‘rest of the world’ – helped to shape domestic political structures, cultures, and ideologies. While concentrating mainly on studies produced during the last twenty years, the review also affirms the continued relevance of work from before the turn of the century, and suggests that some of the most compelling approaches to connecting ‘domestic’ and ‘international’ politics may lie in older historiography. It proposes also that political historians might engage more closely with relevant scholarship by intellectual historians and historians of political thought.

这篇评论探讨了 19 世纪英国政治的国际和帝国层面的近期史学。特别是，它描绘了历史学家试图评估英国在海外（欧洲、帝国和“世界其他地区”）参与政治如何帮助塑造国内政治结构、文化和意识形态的尝试。虽然主要集中在过去 20 年的研究，但该评论也肯定了世纪之交之前工作的持续相关性，并建议将“国内”和“国际”政治联系起来的一些最引人注目的方法可能在于在较旧的史学中。它还建议政治史学家可以更密切地参与知识史学家和政治思想史学家的相关学术研究。