1st Edition
Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820�1920 The Derbys and their World
Edited By Geoffrey Hicks
Copyright 2011
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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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'... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction The View from Knowsley, Geoffrey Hicks; Chapter 1a Derby Redivivus : Reflections on the Political Achievement of the Fourteenth Earl of Derby, Angus Hawkins; Chapter 2 The Ultimate Test: The Fourteenth Earl, the Admiralty and the Ministry of 1852, Andrew Lambert; Chapter 3 The Fourteenth Earl and the 'Political Chameleon': Changing Views of Palmerston from Knowsley, David Brown; Chapter 4 The Struggle for Stability: The Fourteenth Earl and Europe, 1852–1868, Geoffrey Hicks; Chapter 5 'Only wants quiet riding'?: Disraeli, the Fifteenth Earl of Derby and the 'War-in-Sight' Crisis, T.G. Otte; Chapter 6 Britain's ' most isolationist Foreign Secretary ': The Fifteenth Earl and the Eastern Crisis 1876–1878, Bendor Grosvenor; Chapter 7 Crossing the Floor: Mary Derby, the Fifteenth Earl and the Liberals, 1878–1882, Jennifer Davey; Chapter 8 Oiling the Entente : the Seventeenth Earl of Derby and the Paris Embassy, 1918–1920, David Dutton; Chapter 9 Traditions of Conservative Foreign Policy, John Charmley;
Biography
Geoffrey Hicks is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of East Anglia, UK
'... reveal[s] the hidden forces behind British foreign policy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and examine the false impressions that have occurred. ... deserve[s] to be read widely ...' Victorian Studies 'Collectively, the essays offer a further corrective to a historiography of British foreign policy during the nineteenth century, dominated by Palmerston and Disraeli. Students and teachers of British foreign policy will derive much benefit from reading it.' History
