Originally published in 1930, this volume opens with some selections dealing with the situation created by the victory of Japan over China in 1904 which opened a new epoch in the history of the Far East. It includes two momentous conflicts profoundly affecting international relations - the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. It also touches at many points on the long discussions aiming at a naval agreement, with or without some form of general understanding, between England and Germany. Through the Alliance with Japan and the Entente with France it leads up to the separation of Europe into two rival camps, in the course of an evolution in which crisis followed crisis with increasing and often alarming intensity.
E. T. S. Dugdale (1876-1964) was a translator who completed the first English translation of Mein Kampf.
Original Review of German Diplomatic Documents 1871-1914:
'The student of British foreign policy will welcome it as a very interesting and helpful collection of source material.' Dwight E. Lee, The Journal of Modern History, Vol 1, No. 2 (1929)