1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457548803321

Titolo

Conservatism and British foreign policy, 1820-1920 [[electronic resource] ] : the Derbys and their world / / edited by Geoffrey Hicks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2011

ISBN

1-317-16186-6

1-317-16185-8

1-283-28170-8

9786613281708

0-7546-9658-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HicksGeoffrey

Disciplina

327.41009/034

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784084903321

Autore

Diskin Abraham

Titolo

The last days in Israel / / Abraham Diskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : F. Cass, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-75944-8

9786611325824

0-203-01011-6

1-281-32582-1

1-135-75945-6

1-282-77884-6

9786612778841

0-203-50579-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society, , 1368-4795

Disciplina

320.95694

Soggetti

Democracy - Israel

Political parties - Israel

Israel Politics and government 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction; 1 Basic Problems and Basic Objectives; THE BASIC SOCIAL DILEMMA AND ISRAELI DEMOCRACY; THE JEWISH STATE: DEMOGRAPHY AND THE LEGAL NORM; THE SECURITY EQUATION:



MOTIVATION AND MEANS; SOCIAL AND POLITICAL POLARIZATION: DEMOCRACY, JEWISHNESS, SECURITY, AND PEACE; 2 The Constitutional Revolution and the Breakdown of Balances between the Branches of Government; THE JUDICIARY: 'MAKE US A KING TO JUDGE US'; THE LEGISLATIVE AND THE EXECUTIVE: THE COURAGE TO REPENT BEFORE THE FALL; 3 The Party Map

ROOTS AND DEVELOPMENT, 1949–92THE NEW PARTY MAP, 1996–99; THE POWER OF THE POLITICAL CENTER; 4 Days of Storm and Stress; FROM RABIN TO PERES: 'YES TO PEACE—NO TO VIOLENCE'; FROM PERES TO NETANYAHU: THE SHIFTING SANDS OF PARITY; THE NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT: IN THE ABSENCE OF CHECKS AND BALANCES; THE 1999 ELECTIONS; THE BARAK GOVERNMENT: FROM DILEMMA TO DILEMMA; THE SHARON GOVERNMENT; 5 Conclusion: Solutions in the Absence of a Solution;

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines the challenges and circumstances Israel has faced during the 1990s and addresses both the public's and leadership's singular goal of "peace and security".