The Politics of Protection: Lord Derby and the Protectionist Party 1841-1852

by Robert Stewart and Robert Stewart

One of the great landmarks in the history of English politics in the nineteenth century was the struggle to repeal the Corn Laws in the 1840s. Earlier accounts have examined the episode from the side of the free-traders. This book explains the conduct of those Tories who broke with Robert Peel, and who, in the fighting to save the Corn Laws, preserved the foundations of the modern Conservative Party. Examining the relationship before 1846 between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052108671X
• ISBN13: 9780521086714
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"