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Title:

Conservatism and British foreign policy, 1820-1920 : the Derbys and their world / edited by Geoffrey Hicks.

Publisher:

Ashgate Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 234 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain--Politics and government--19th century.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1901-1936.
Conservatism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Conservatism--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley,--Earl of,--1799-1869.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--19th century.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1901-1936.
Conservative Party (Great Britain)--History.
Derby, Earls of.
Stanley family.

Other Authors:

Hicks, Geoffrey.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0754669297 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780754669296 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)711959898

LCCN:

2011013780

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)