From Pitt to Peel
conservative politics in the age of reform
$173.19
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
From Repression to Reform: Britain’s Tory Transformation
The post-Napoleonic era marks a turning point in British political history, witnessing the Tory party’s evolution from staunch defenders of the status quo to proponents of “one-nation” conservatism, as later articulated by Sir Robert Peel.
Following the harsh suppression of radical movements, exemplified by the Peterloo Massacre, the Tories embarked on a path of moderate, pragmatic reform that permeated various policy …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848854376 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848854374 |
| Series: | International Library Of Political Studies |
| Author: | Dr. Richard A. Gaunt |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | I.B. Tauris |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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About The Author
Dr. Richard A. Gaunt
Richard A. Gaunt is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Nottingham and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has contributed to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and edited the diaries of a major Ultra-Tory politician of the period in Unhappy Reactionary: The Diaries of the Fourth Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme and a book of contemporary texts concerning Benjamin Disraeli. He is the author of Sir Robert Peel: The Life and Legacy (I.B.Tauris, 2010).
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