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The first edited collection of primary, documentary material pertaining to Conservative governments' foreign policy between 1852 and 1878.

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Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernizat