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The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe, 1830-1886

By Jonathan Parry

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
9780511257438, 9780521839341, 0521839343
Open Library ID
OL22742106M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2752324 bytes)
Pages
434\436
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Between the 1830s and 1880s European problems had a profound impact on British politics. Jonathan Parry examines the effect on the British Liberal movement of the most significant of these, such as the 1848 Revolutions, the unification of Italy, the Franco-Prussian War and the Eastern Question, arguing that these European problems made patriotism a major political question: governments were judged by their success in promoting British interests abroad, but also by the purity, potency and 'Englishness' of the political values they represented. This volume makes a major contribution towards understanding three important aspects of nineteenth-century British history: British attitudes to Europe, contemporary notions of national identity, and the nature and dynamic of British Liberalism. Setting foreign and domestic policy discussions in a patriotic framework, Parry offers an analysis of the ideas that influenced the Liberal political coalition and the turning-points affecting its vigour and unity as a political movement.

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