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Lord Salisbury on Politics: A selection from his articles in the Quarterly Review, 1860-1883

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Lord Salisbury on Politics: A selection from his articles in the Quarterly Review, 1860-1883
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Paul Smith
SeriesCambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:396
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780521044578
ClassificationsDewey:320.94
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 29 November 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Leader of the Conservative party for seventeen years and prime minister for fourteen, the third Marquis of Salisbury was one of the most successful political practitioners of modern times, as well as a major international statesman. Yet he was also a prolific and pungent writer on politics. The large body of journalism which he produced during the first thirty years of his career enables us to examine in detail the views on politics and society which underlay his practical action. While his brand of Conservatism was conventional in its conclusions, it was distinguished by the highly sceptical and utilitarian mode of reasoning through which it sought to reach them, and by its insistence on a crudely conceived class struggle as the driving force of history and politics. Its central theme was hostility to 'democracy'; and when, after 1867, 'democracy' seemed to have arrived, it questioned how far the system of parliamentary government could work tolerably under the new dispensation.