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George Canning and Liberal Toryism, 1801-27 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for George Canning and Liberal Toryism, 1801-27George Canning, one of the charismatic figures in British political history, was at the centre of Hanoverian politics for nearly four decades. This study looks at how Canning emerged in the years between 1801 and his death in 1827 as the leading exponent of a distinctive form of Liberal Toryism in parliament and in the country at large.
Full description- Publisher: Royal Historical Society
- Published: 15 May 2008
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
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- Categories: Political Parties | British & Irish History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
- ISBN 13: 9780861932948 ISBN 10: 0861932943
- Sales rank: 529,455
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Full description for George Canning and Liberal Toryism, 1801-27
George Canning, one of the most charismatic and divisive figures in British political history, was at the centre of Hanoverian politics for nearly four decades. This study looks at how Canning emerged in the years between 1801 and his death in 1827 as the leading exponent of a distinctive form of Liberal Toryism in parliament and in the country at large.In contrast to the majority of works on Canning and his impact of British foreign policy, it concentrates on Canning's domestic career: his emergence from the shadow of Pitt after 1801; his disillusionment with old-fashioned factionalism in the years after Pitt's death in 1806; his experiences as MP for Liverpool (1812-23); his political thought; his relationships with the middle classes and his contribution to the evolution of the idea of 'public opinion'; his role in the 'high' period of Liberal Toryism (1822-7); and, finally, his central part in the break-up of the Tory party in 1827 in the aftermath of Lord Liverpool's incapacitating stroke. His achievement is thus shown to lie as much in the realm of domestic party politics as in foreign relations and diplomacy.And by looking at Canning's career over the longer term, the book argues that Liberal Toryism was not simply a flourish of post-war economic liberalism, but a fundamental reshaping of British party politics in the aftermath of the French revolution.
