Hicks Peace, war and party politics

The Conservatives and Europe, 1846–59
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-147-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hicks, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hicks Geoffrey:

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