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Peace, War and Party Politics: The Conservatives and Europe, 1846-59
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Artikel-Nr:
9780719075957
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2008
Seiten:
268
Autor:
Geoffrey Hicks
Gewicht:
594 g
Format:
236x164x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Geoffrey Hicks is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of East Anglia
"Peace, War, and Party Politics" examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Party's significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britain's relations with Europe. The book considers the Conservatives' response--in opposition and government--to the tumultuous era of Napoleon III, the Crimean war, and Italian unification. Within a clear chronological framework, it focuses on "high" politics, and offers a detailed account of the party's foreign policy in government under its longest-serving but forgotten leader, the fourteenth Earl of Derby. It attaches equal significance to domestic politics, and incorporates a provocative new analysis of Disraeli's role in internal tussles over policy, illuminating the roots of the power struggle he would later win against Derby's son in the 1870s.
Preface 1 Introduction 2 Conservative perspectives 3 Prelude to power, 1850-52 4 1852. Foreign affairs; domestic problems 5 Entente Cordiale 6 From peace to war: opposing Aberdeen, 1852-1855 7 From war to peace: opposing Palmerston, 1855-1858 8 Disraelian undertones, 1858 9 The Italian Question 10 European war; Conservative struggle 11 The politics of Conservative foreign policy