TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hicks,Geoffrey
TI  - Peace, war and party politics: the Conservatives and Europe, 1846-59
SN  - 9781847791474
AV  - D34 .P433 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Conservative Party (Great Britain)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Europe
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 1837-1901
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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