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Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920
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Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920

The Derbys and their World

Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920

The Derbys and their World

Edited ByGeoffrey Hicks
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 23 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573496
Pages 246 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315573496
SubjectsHumanities, Politics & International Relations
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Hicks, G. (Ed.). (2011). Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573496

The Derbys of Knowsley Hall have been neglected by historians to an astonishing degree. In domestic political terms, the legacies of Disraeli and his Conservative successors have long obscured their Lancastrian aristocratic predecessors. As far as foreign policy is concerned, twentieth century politics and scholarship have often suggested crude polarities: for example, the idea of 'appeasement' versus Churchillian belligerence has its nineteenth century equivalent in Aberdeen's apparent rivalry with Palmerston. The subtleties of other views, such as those represented by the Derbys, have either been overlooked or misunderstood. In addition, the fact that much crucial archival and editorial work has only been carried out in the last two decades has had a significant impact. Examining a range of topics in domestic and foreign policy, this collection brings a fresh approach to the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through a series of innovative essays. It 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |18 pages
Introduction: The View from Knowsley
ByGeoffrey Hicks
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chapter 1|22 pages
Derby Redivivus: Reflections on the Political Achievement of the Fourteenth Earl of Derby
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chapter 2|18 pages
The Ultimate Test: The Fourteenth Earl, the Admiralty and the Ministry of 1852
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chapter 3|21 pages
The Fourteenth Earl and the ‘Political Chameleon’: Changing Views of Palmerston from Knowsley
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chapter 4|19 pages
The Struggle for Stability: The Fourteenth Earl and Europe, 1852‒1868
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chapter 5|30 pages
‘Only wants quiet riding’?: Disraeli, the Fifteenth Earl of Derby and the ‘War-in-Sight’ Crisis
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chapter 6|40 pages
Britain’s ‘most isolationist Foreign Secretary’: The Fifteenth Earl and the Eastern Crisis 1876‒1878
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chapter 7|20 pages
Crossing the Floor: Mary Derby, the Fifteenth Earl and the Liberals, 1878‒1882
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chapter 8|26 pages
Oiling the Entente: the Seventeenth Earl of Derby and the Paris Embassy, 1918‒1920
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chapter 9|14 pages
Traditions of Conservative Foreign Policy
ByJohn Charmley
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