More to the point:
The table of contents of the popular history Perpetual Distraction: Policy in Early Modern Britain, by Domitille de Buttet. Published in 1983 by the University of London Press, Cardiff, it was derided by professional historians as largely oversimplistic and derivative, but was commercially successful both in Britain and world wide.
Inscribed just inside the cover is a single sentence.
"All politics is local."
Table of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: Perpetual Distraction: Policy in Early Modern Britain.
Chapter 2: After Agincourt.
Chapter 3: 1763-1773 The Lonely Island: England Astride the World.
Chapter 4: 1773-1781 The American Problem.
Chapter 5: 1783-1794 Reframing of Empire.
Chapter 6: 1794-1805 Revolution and Reaction.
Chapter 7: 1806-1823 The Cultist Wars.
Chapter 8: 1823-1852 Shadow of the Hegemon.
Chapter 9: 1852-1868 The Great Game.
Chapter 10: 1868-1879 Pax Britannia.
Chapter 11: 1879-1889 Conqueror and Captive: The Third Scramble.
Chapter 12: 1890-1906 A Third Alliance.
Chapter 13: 1908-1915 La Belle Époque.
Chapter 14: 1915-1920 Entente.
Chapter 15: 1920-1940 Status Quo, Ante Bellum.
Chapter 16: 1941-1946 Total War.
Chapter 17: 1945-1963 Friends Like These.
Chapter 18: 1963-1969 Reconstruction and The Empty Handed War
Chapter 19: 1969-present New World Order.
Chapter 20: Conclusions.
Acknowledgements.
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Index
Note: The 1985 edition combined chapters 9 and 10 into a single whole, titled "Pax Britannia and The Great Game."