1st Edition
The Tory World Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014
By Jeremy Black
Copyright 2015
416 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
412 Pages
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Routledge
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Political decisions are never taken in a vacuum but are shaped both by current events and historical context. In other words, long-term developments and patterns in which the accumulated memory of what came earlier, can greatly (and sometimes subconsciously) influence subsequent policy choices. Working forward from the later seventeenth century, this book explores the ’deep history’ of the... Read more
Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction, Jeremy Black; Chapter 2 Toryism and the World in the Later Stuart Era, 1679–1714, Tony Claydon; Chapter 3 Foreign Policy and the Tory World in the Eighteenth Century, Jeremy Black; Chapter 4 The Tories and France, 1714–60, Nigel Aston; Chapter 5 Edmund Burke in the Tory World, Iain Hampsher-Monk; Chapter 6 Lord Liverpool, William Anthony Hay; Chapter 7 The Tory World View, Andrew Lambert; Chapter 8 From Country Part y to Conservative Part y, Richard A. Gaunt; Chapter 9 ‘A Calm, Temperate, Deliberate, and Conciliatory Course of Conduct’, Angus Hawkins; Chapter 10 Disraeli and Foreign Policy, Douglas Hurd; Chapter 11 1864, Adrian Brettle; Chapter 12 ‘We are Part of the community of Europe’, T.G. Otte; Chapter 13 Winston Churchill – Conservative or Liberal Imperialist?, Richard Toye; Chapter 14 Geoffrey Dawson, All Souls College and the ‘Unofficial Committee for the Destinies of the British Empire’, c. 1919–1931, S.J.D. Green; Chapter 15 Is There a Tory Strategy?, Brian Holden Reid; Chapter 16 Conservatism Obscured, 1935–1939, Geoffrey Hicks; Chapter 17 The Conservatives and Radical Reform, Richard Whiting; Chapter 18 The European Question, the National Interest and Tory Histories, Jeremy Black;
Biography
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of over 100 books, especially on eighteenth-century British politics and international relations, and is or has been on a number of editorial boards including the Journal of Military History, the journal of the Royal United Services Institute, Media History, the International History Review, and History Today, and was editor of Archives.
