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Steele, E.D.
Palmerston and Liberalism, 1855-1865
West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.: Cambridge Univ Pr 1991, 1st Edition As New Hardcover As New Still shrinkwrapped. "The prevailing idea of Lord Palmerston is that he occupied the British premiership for almost ten years by basing his policies on "crude belligerence abroad and crass fear at home". This book, founded on extensive new archival research, shows that the received view of Palmerston is an inversion of the truth. In common with nearly all Victorian politicians, and more ably than most of them, it is argued that Palmerston worked for the co-operation of social classes, and for the avoidance of war on a scale that might disrupt the economy and exacerbate social tensions. As Prime Minister he managed the transition to democracy in advance of the Second Reform Act by taking politics to the people in platform oratory that Gladstone, among others, first denounced and then emulated; and by inviting the self-styled representatives of the middle class into the "citadel of power", the Cabinet, which had been hitherto an almost exclusively aristocratic preserve. The success of Palmerston's methods invited Tory and Radical misrepresentation, inasmuch as genius for adaptation could easily be taken for legerdemain. In this study policies and political relationships are examined in depth and in precise detail in order to discover the real substance of Palmerston's achievements. His ability to laugh publicly at himself and others was a measure of the authority he enjoyed in his time." (Publisher)
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