George Canning and Liberal Toryism, 1801-1827

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-86193-294-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 222 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

A survey of the political career of George Canning, showing how he contributed to a radical change in British party politics.

Winner of the Royal Historical Society's 2009 Whitfield Book Prize. 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' periodof 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Stephen M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Escaping Pitt's shadow, 1801-1807
The Failure of Faction, 1809-1812
Canning and Liverpool, 1812-1823
Canning and the Constitution
Canning, the Middle Class and Public Opinion
Canning and the Question of Liberal Toryism in the 1820s
Canning, the Failure of Liberal Toryism, and the Collapse of the Tory Party 1824-1827