Jonathan Parry is Reader in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College.

Review of the hardback: '… a work of stupendous learning that demonstrates on every page a sovereign knowledge of the writings of familiar and unfamiliar authors … it offers an exemplary case-study of the interaction between the awareness of competition in the international sphere and domestic initiatives in the nineteenth century.' Sehepunkte

• Introduction; Part I. English Liberalism and National Identity: 1. The English constitution and the liberal state; 2. Character, morals and national identity; Part II. Europe and Liberal Politics: 3. Liberalism and the continent, 1830–47; 4. The 1848 revolutions and the triumph of liberal patriotism; 5. Italian unification and the search for an ethical nationhood; 6. The Franco-Prussian War and the destruction of the first Gladstone government, 1870–4; 7. The Eastern question and its consequences, 1875–6; Conclusion; Abbreviations and bibliography.

Jonathan Parry is Reader in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College.

Review of the hardback: '… a work of stupendous learning that demonstrates on every page a sovereign knowledge of the writings of familiar and unfamiliar authors … it offers an exemplary case-study of the interaction between the awareness of competition in the international sphere and domestic initiatives in the nineteenth century.' Sehepunkte

• Introduction; Part I. English Liberalism and National Identity: 1. The English constitution and the liberal state; 2. Character, morals and national identity; Part II. Europe and Liberal Politics: 3. Liberalism and the continent, 1830–47; 4. The 1848 revolutions and the triumph of liberal patriotism; 5. Italian unification and the search for an ethical nationhood; 6. The Franco-Prussian War and the destruction of the first Gladstone government, 1870–4; 7. The Eastern question and its consequences, 1875–6; Conclusion; Abbreviations and bibliography.

Jonathan Parry is Reader in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College.

Review of the hardback: '… a work of stupendous learning that demonstrates on every page a sovereign knowledge of the writings of familiar and unfamiliar authors … it offers an exemplary case-study of the interaction between the awareness of competition in the international sphere and domestic initiatives in the nineteenth century.' Sehepunkte

• Introduction; Part I. English Liberalism and National Identity: 1. The English constitution and the liberal state; 2. Character, morals and national identity; Part II. Europe and Liberal Politics: 3. Liberalism and the continent, 1830–47; 4. The 1848 revolutions and the triumph of liberal patriotism; 5. Italian unification and the search for an ethical nationhood; 6. The Franco-Prussian War and the destruction of the first Gladstone government, 1870–4; 7. The Eastern question and its consequences, 1875–6; Conclusion; Abbreviations and bibliography.