Geoffrey Hicks

Peace, war and party politics (eBook, ePUB)

The Conservatives and Europe, 1846-59

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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. It considers the Conservatives' response, in opposition and government, to the tumultuous era of Napoleon III, the Crimean war and Italian unification.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796868
• Artikelnr.: 44054645

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Hicks is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of East Anglia

Inhaltsangabe

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, 1852-1855 7. From war to peace:
opposing Palmerston, 1855-1858 8. Disraelian undertones, 1858 9. The
Italian Question 10. European war; Conservative struggle 11. The politics
of Conservative foreign policy