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Autore: | Hicks Geoffrey |
Titolo: | Peace, war and party politics [[electronic resource] ] : the conservatives and Europe 1846-59 / / Geoffrey Hicks |
Pubblicazione: | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina: | 327.4104 |
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 genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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: | 1-78170-078-8 |
1-84779-147-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910465702503321 |
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