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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808313903321

Autore

Hicks Geoffrey

Titolo

Peace, war and party politics [[electronic resource] ] : the conservatives and Europe 1846-59 / / Geoffrey Hicks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-84779-686-9

1-78170-078-8

1-84779-147-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Disciplina

327.4104

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General

Great Britain Foreign relations Europe

Europe Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations 1837-1901

Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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