80 Pages
by
Routledge
80 Pages
by
Routledge
80 Pages
by
Routledge
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Disraeli is a key figure for students of nineteenth-century Britain. He is indelibly identified with the unmaking of Peel's version of the Conservative Party, and with the re-creation of a durable and outstandingly successful new party which retained the loyalty of the squires and the shires while reaching out to newer forms of property ownership and cultivating the attachment of a significant... Read more
Chapter 1 The image and the myth; Chapter 2 Disraeli and the landed interest; Chapter 3 Church and queen; Chapter 4 Nation and empire; Chapter 5 Social reform; Chapter 6 Legend and legacy;
Biography
John K. Walton
` ... the pamphlet succeeds admirably in setting out existing, and the author's own, interpretations of a man who, more than most, has been the subject of endless controversy. In itself, it may excite further controversy - and, in that, too, this lively and excellent pamphlet is well worthy of its subject.' - Social History Society
