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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
Conservative Party (Great Britain) --- Conservative and Unionist Party (Great Britain) --- Conservative Party (Gt. Brit.) --- Tory Party (Great Britain) --- Scottish Unionist Party --- Liberal Unionist Party (Great Britain) --- History --- Great Britain --- Europe --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. --- British foreign policy. --- Conservative Party. --- Crimean War. --- Disraeli. --- Earl of Derby. --- Italian Unification. --- Napoleon III. --- government. --- high politics. --- mid-Victorian Britain.
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This book brings the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up-to-date through a series of fresh and innovative essays on the Derbys and the conservative, or Conservative Party, approach to foreign policy. It brings a fresh approach to the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through a series of innovative essays and 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.
Conservatism --- History --- Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, --- Derby, Earls of. --- Stanley family. --- Conservative Party (Great Britain) --- History. --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government
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