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UNINA9910457548803321 |
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Titolo |
Conservatism and British foreign policy, 1820-1920 [[electronic resource] ] : the Derbys and their world / / edited by Geoffrey Hicks |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-16186-6 |
1-317-16185-8 |
1-283-28170-8 |
9786613281708 |
0-7546-9658-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Conservatism - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Conservatism - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain Foreign relations 1901-1936 |
Great Britain Foreign relations 19th century |
Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1936 |
Great Britain Politics and government 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Timeline; Introduction The View from Knowsley; 1 Derby Redivivus: Reflections on the Political Achievement of the Fourteenth Earl of Derby; 2 The Ultimate Test: The Fourteenth Earl, the Admiralty and the Ministry of 1852; 3 The Fourteenth Earl and the 'Political Chameleon': Changing Views of Palmerston from Knowsley; 5 'Only wants quiet riding'?: Disraeli, the Fifteenth Earl of Derby and the 'War-in-Sight' Crisis; 6 Britain's 'most isolationist Foreign Secretary': The Fifteenth Earl and the Eastern Crisis |
7 Crossing the Floor: Mary Derby, the Fifteenth Earl and the Liberals, 1878?18828 Oiling the Entente: the Seventeenth Earl of Derby and the Paris Embassy, 1918?1920; 9 Traditions of Conservative Foreign Policy; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book brings the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up-to-date through a series of fresh and innovative essays on the Derbys and the conservative, or Conservative Party, approach to foreign policy. It brings a fresh approach to the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through a series of innovative essays and will appeal to those with an interest in the decline of the aristocracy, Victorian high politics and the politics of the regions, as well as the Conservative tradition in foreign policy. |
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