Peace, war and party politics [[electronic resource] ] : the conservatives and Europe 1846-59 / / Geoffrey Hicks
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| Autore: |
Hicks Geoffrey
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| Titolo: |
Peace, war and party politics [[electronic resource] ] : the conservatives and Europe 1846-59 / / Geoffrey Hicks
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 327.4104 |
| Soggetto topico: | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Foreign relations Europe |
| Europe Foreign relations Great Britain | |
| Great Britain Foreign relations 1837-1901 | |
| Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901 | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | British foreign policy |
| Conservative Party | |
| Crimean War | |
| Disraeli | |
| Earl of Derby | |
| Italian Unification | |
| Napoleon III | |
| government | |
| high politics | |
| mid-Victorian Britain | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Peace, war and party politics |
| ISBN: | 1-84779-686-9 |
| 1-78170-078-8 | |
| 1-84779-147-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791736003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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