A History of Conservative Politics Since 1830

ISBN-13: 9780333929742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 304 str.

Opis

With their fundamental distrust of change, how is it that the Conservatives have managed to cope with change relatively successfully? John Charmley has written an entertaining but fair account of one of the principal forces in modern British political history, illuminated throughout by a concentration upon the men, and the woman, who charted the party through a century of warfare and welfare. The second edition of this successful text is thoroughly updated to take into account the latest scholarship, and now has an earlier starting date to make sense of the importance of the Home Rule issue in defining late nineteenth-century Toryism. Charmley takes the story through the recent "wilderness years" following the 1997 election fiasco.

Spis treści

The Making of the Conservative Coalition: Salisbury and the Home Rule Crisis.- The Conservative Ascendancy 1886-1902.- Balfourian Dog Days.- Over the Top with Bonar Law.- Coming to Terms with the Democracy: or the Importance of Being Baldwin.- Chamberlain and Company.- Churchill: Triumph and Tragedy.- Refashioning the Image.- The Era of 'Supermac'.- Decline and Fall?.- Mrs. Thatcher to the Rescue.- The Iron Lady Rusts.- In the Shadows: Major Disasters.- After the Ball was Over.- The Search for a 'New Conservatism'.- Appendix.- Notes and References.- Bibliogaphy.- Index.

O autorze

JOHN CHARMLEY is Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia, UK. His other publications include Churchill: The End to Glory and Churchill's Grand Alliance.