Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920 write by Geoffrey Hicks. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Derbys of Knowsley Hall have been neglected by historians to an astonishing degree. In domestic political terms, the legacies of Disraeli and his Conservative successors have long obscured their Lancastrian aristocratic predecessors. As far as foreign policy is concerned, twentieth century politics and scholarship have often suggested crude polarities: for example, the idea of 'appeasement' versus Churchillian belligerence has its nineteenth century equivalent in Aberdeen's apparent rivalry with Palmerston. The subtleties of other views, such as those represented by the Derbys, have either been overlooked or misunderstood. In addition, the fact that much crucial archival and editorial work has only been carried out in the last two decades has had a significant impact. Examining a range of topics in domestic and foreign policy, this collection brings a fresh approach to the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through a series of innovative essays. It 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.
Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878
Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878 write by Geoff Hicks. This book was released on 2012-12-20. Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first edited collection of primary, documentary material pertaining to Conservative governments' foreign policy between 1852 and 1878.
Portrait of a Party
Portrait of a Party - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portrait of a Party write by Stuart Ball. This book was released on 2013-04-25. Portrait of a Party available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Conservative Party is the least investigated and understood of British political parties. Using an original approach and an unparalleled range of sources, Stuart Ball analyses the nature and working of the Conservative Party during one of the most significant and successful periods in its history.
Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920
Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920 write by Geoffrey Hicks. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Derbys of Knowsley Hall have been neglected by historians to an astonishing degree. In domestic political terms, the legacies of Disraeli and his Conservative successors have long obscured their Lancastrian aristocratic predecessors. As far as foreign policy is concerned, twentieth century politics and scholarship have often suggested crude polarities: for example, the idea of 'appeasement' versus Churchillian belligerence has its nineteenth century equivalent in Aberdeen's apparent rivalry with Palmerston. The subtleties of other views, such as those represented by the Derbys, have either been overlooked or misunderstood. In addition, the fact that much crucial archival and editorial work has only been carried out in the last two decades has had a significant impact. Examining a range of topics in domestic and foreign policy, this collection brings a fresh approach to the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through a series of innovative essays. It 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.
The Tory World
The Tory World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tory World write by Jeremy Black. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Tory World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political decisions are never taken in a vacuum but are shaped both by current events and historical context. In other words, long-term developments and patterns in which the accumulated memory of what came earlier, can greatly (and sometimes subconsciously) influence subsequent policy choices. Working forward from the later seventeenth century, this book explores the ’deep history’ of the changing and competing understandings within the Tory party of the role Britain has aspired to play on a world stage. Conservatism has long been one of the major British political tendencies, committed to the defence of established institutions, with a strong sense of the ’national interest’, and embracing both ’liberal’ and ’authoritarian’ views of empire. The Tory party has, moreover, at several times been deeply divided, if not convulsed, by different perspectives on Britain’s international orientation and different positions on foreign and imperial policy. Underlying Tory beliefs upon which views of Britain’s global role were built were often not stated but assumed. As a result they tend to be obscured from historical view. This book seeks to recover and reconsider those beliefs, and to understand how the Tory party has sought to navigate its way through the difficult pathways of foreign and imperial politics, and why this determination outlasted Britain’s rapid decolonisation and was apparently remarkably little affected by it. With a supporting cast from Pitt to Disraeli, Churchill to Thatcher, the book provides a fascinating insight into the influence of history over politics. Moreover it argues that there has been an inherent politicisation of the concept of national interests, such that strategic culture and foreign policy cannot be understood other than in terms of a historically distorted political debate.
