The Tory World: Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014

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Jeremy Black

The Tory World

Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014

Jeremy Black

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Routledge
28 February 2015

British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; International relations

Political decisions are never taken in a vacuum but are shaped both by current events and historical context. In other words, long-term developments and patterns in which the accumulated memory of what came earlier, can greatly (and sometimes subconsciously) influence subsequent policy choices. Working forward from the later seventeenth century, this book explores the ’deep history’ of the changing and competing understandings within the Tory party of the role Britain has aspired to play on a world stage.

Conservatism has long been one of the major British political tendencies, committed to the defence of established institutions, with a strong sense of the ’national interest’, and embracing both ’liberal’ and ’authoritarian’ views of empire. The Tory party has, moreover, at several times been deeply divided, if not convulsed, by different perspectives on Britain’s international orientation and different positions on foreign and imperial policy. Underlying Tory beliefs upon which views of Britain’s global role were built were often not stated but assumed. As a result they tend to be obscured from historical view. This book seeks to recover and reconsider those beliefs, and to understand how the Tory party has sought to navigate its way through the difficult pathways of foreign and imperial politics, and why this determination outlasted Britain’s rapid decolonisation and was apparently remarkably little affected by it.

With a supporting cast from Pitt to Disraeli, Churchill to Thatcher, the book provides a fascinating insight into the influence of history over politics. Moreover it argues that there has been an inherent politicisation of the concept of national interests, such that strategic culture and foreign policy cannot be understood other than in terms of a historically distorted political debate.

By: Jeremy Black
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9781472414281
ISBN 10: 1472414284
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 28 February 2015
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of over 100 books, especially on eighteenth-century British politics and international relations, and is or has been on a number of editorial boards including the Journal of Military History, the journal of the Royal United Services Institute, Media History, the International History Review, and History Today, and was editor of Archives.

Reviews for The Tory World: Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014

"""The range of essays in this volume is impressive and highly illuminating...The meticulous scholarship, which so many of the contributors to this volume have shown, uncovers a world of ambitious Conservative politicians groping towards policies which may satisfy short-term needs. These ideas are often extremely difficult to categorise in abstract philosophical terms. The Tory World is a successful, and important, contribution to scholarship about Conservative foreign policy in the course of more than 300 years of British political history."" - Kwasi Kwarteng, House of Commons, Parliamentary History"