| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The view from Knowsley / Geoffrey Hicks -- Derby redivivus: reflections on the political achievement of the fourteenth Earl of Derby / Angus Hawkins -- The ultimate test: the fourteenth earl, the admiralty and the ministry of 1852 / Andrew Lambert -- The fourteenth earl and the 'political chameleon': changing views of Palmerston from Knowsley / David Brown -- The struggle for stability: the fourteenth earl and Europe, 1852-1868 / Geoffrey Hicks -- "Only wants quiet riding"?: Disraeli, the fifteenth Earl of Derby and the "war-in-sight" crisis / T.G. Otte -- Britain's 'most isolationist foreign secretary': the fifteenth earl and the eastern crisis 1876-8 / Bendor Grosvenor -- Crossing the floor: Mary Derby, the fifteenth earl and the liberals, 1878-1882 / Jennifer Davey -- Oiling the entente: the seventeenth Earl of Derby and the Paris Embassy, 1918-20 / David Dutton -- Traditions of conservative foreign policy / John Charmley. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Conservative Party (Great Britain) -- History.
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Conservative Party (Great Britain) |
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History. |
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Derby, Earls of.
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Derby, Earls of. |
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Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869.
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Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869. |
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Stanley family.
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Stanley family. |
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Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Conservatism. |
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1901-1936.
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1901-1936 |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1901-1936.
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Politics and government. |
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hicks, Geoffrey.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hicks, Geoffrey. Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820-1920. Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2011 9780754696582 |
| ISBN |
9780754696582 (electronic book) |
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0754696588 (electronic book) |
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9780754669296 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0754669297 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613281708 |
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