The Tory world: deep history and the Tory theme in British foreign policy, 1679-2014

Political decisions are never taken in a vacuum but are shaped both by current events and historical context.

In other words, long-term developments and patterns in which the accumulated memory of what came earlier, can greatly (and sometimes subconsciously) influence subsequent policy choices.

Working forward from the later seventeenth century, this book explores the 'deep history' of the changing and competing understandings within the Tory party of the role Britain has aspired to play on a world stage.