Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The politics of foreign policy; Englishness, nation and race; Ireland: british, european or colony?; Assumptions and approaches; CHAPTER 1 The English constitution and the liberal state; CHAPTER 2 Character, morals and national identity; CHAPTER 3 Liberalism and the Continent, 1830-1847; CHAPTER 4 The 1848 revolutions and the triumph of liberal patriotism; CHAPTER 5 Italian unification and the search for an ethical nationhood
Summary
Between the 1830s and 1880s European problems had a profound impact on British politics. Parry examines the effect on the British Liberal movement of the most significant of these, such as the 1848 Revolutions, the unification of Italy, and the Franco-Prussian War, arguing such issues made patriotism a political question
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-414) and index
