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Peace, war and party politics the Conservatives and Europe, 1846-59.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847791474
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • D34 .P433 2007
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Subject: 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 equ.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719075957; 9780719075957; Copyright; Contents; 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,1852-55; 7 From war to peace: opposing Palmerston, 1855-58; 8 Disraelian undertones, 1858; 9 The Italian question; 10 European war, Conservative struggle; 11 The politics of Conservative foreign policy; Bibliography; Index.

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 equ.

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