The Politics of Protection: Lord Derby and the Protectionist Party, 1841-52 - Couverture rigide

Stewart, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0751202835 ISBN 13 : 9780751202830

Editeur : Gregg Revivals, 1994

Synopsis

The theme of this book is the unsuccessful attempts of the 19th-century Anglican landed gentry to preserve their traditional social and political pre-eminence in England. It discusses the reasons for the decline of this elite and also the failure of the Protectionist Party after 1846.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the great landmarks in the history of English politics in the nineteenth century was the struggle to repeal the Corn Laws in the 1840s. Earlier accounts have examined the episode from the side of the free-traders. This book explains the conduct of those Tories who broke with Robert Peel, and who, in the fighting to save the Corn Laws, preserved the foundations of the modern Conservative Party. Examining the relationship before 1846 between Peel's government and the right-wing back-benchers of the Conservative Party, Dr Stewart argues that there was much more to the split in 1846 than a dispute over tariff policy. He stresses the importance and prevalence of anti-Catholicism among Tory Protectionists, and shows how differences were broad enough to make the 1846 split permanent, and for the Protectionists to organize themselves into a separate party under Lord George Bentinck and Lord Derby.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gregg Revivals
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0751202835
• ISBN 13: 9780751202830
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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