Disraeli

<strong>Disraeli</strong> is a key figure for students of nineteenthcentury Britain. He isindelibly identified with the unmaking of Peels version of the Conserv... » 

Disraeli is a key figure for students of nineteenthcentury Britain. He isindelibly identified with the unmaking of Peels version of the ConservativeParty and with the recreation of a durable and outstandingly successful newparty which retained the loyalty of the squires and the shires while reachingout to newer forms of property ownership and cultivating the attachment of asignificant proportion of the urban working class.John K. Walton here examines the major aspects of Disraelis career and hislegacy asking how far his actions and policies were governed by principles andhow far by expediency. He also enquires how far Disraeli set his own agenda andhow far he was a rider of currents out of his control. Finally Walton takes acareful look at his political institutional and ideological legacy. «