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Conservatism and British foreign policy, 1820-1920 : the Derbys and their world /

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 nineteen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hicks, Geoffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.