Conservatism and British foreign policy, 1820-1920
Subtitle: the Derbys and their world
By: edited by Geoffrey Hicks
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780754669296; 9780754696582
Subjects: Politics and government; Conservative Party (Great Britain); Conservatism; Foreign relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The view from Knowsley / Geoffrey Hicks; title: Derby redivivus: reflections on the political achievement of the fourteenth Earl of Derby / Angus Hawkins; title: The ultimate test: the fourteenth earl, the admiralty and the ministry of 1852 / Andrew Lambert; title: The fourteenth earl and the 'political chameleon': changing views of Palmerston from Knowsley / David Brown; title: The struggle for stability: the fourteenth earl and Europe, 1852-1868 / Geoffrey Hicks; title: "Only wants quiet riding"?: Disraeli, the fifteenth Earl of Derby and the "war-in-sight" crisis / T.G. Otte; title: Britain's 'most isolationist foreign secretary': the fifteenth earl and the eastern crisis 1876-8 / Bendor Grosvenor; title: Crossing the floor: Mary Derby, the fifteenth earl and the liberals, 1878-1882 / Jennifer Davey; title: Oiling the entente: the seventeenth Earl of Derby and the Paris Embassy, 1918-20 / David Dutton; title: Traditions of conservative foreign policy / John Charmley.