The Tory World: Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014 [Hardcover]

The range of essays in this volume is impressive and highly illuminating...The meticulous scholarship, which so many of the contributors to this volume have shown, uncovers a world of ambitious Conservative politicians groping towards policies which may satisfy short-term needs. These ideas are often extremely difficult to categorise in abstract philosophical terms. The Tory World is a successful, and important, contribution to scholarship about Conservative foreign policy in the course of more than 300 years of British political history. - Kwasi Kwarteng, House of Commons, Parliamentary History

 

Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction, Jeremy Black; Chapter 2 Toryism and the World in the Later Stuart Era, 16791714, Tony Claydon; Chapter 3 Foreign Policy and the Tory World in the Eighteenth Century, Jeremy Black; Chapter 4 The Tories and France, 171460, 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. 19191931, S.J.D. Green; Chapter 15 Is There a Tory Strategy?, Brian Holden Reid; Chapter 16 Conservatism Obscured, 19351939, Geoffrey Hicks; Chapter 17 The Conservatives and Radical Reform, Richard Whiting; Chapter 18 The European Question, the National Interest and Tory Histories, Jeremy Black;Political decisions are never tal£‘