TY - JOUR
AU - Chamberlain, M. E.
AB - Modern Europe 399 the autonomy of foreign policy and the ignorance, dictionary of scientific biography. Central figures in the Society for Psychical Research who were also or indifferente, of politicians and high-ranking civil prominent in Victorian science are discussed ac- servants to economic considerations. Such simplici- cording to their place in an implicitly positivist ties rarely survive a thorough examination of the arrangement of soft to hard science, from Frederick archives, for diplomatie, strategic, political, and eco- Myers in psychology through Robert Chambers and nomic motives intermeshed in a complicated way. A. R. Wallace in biology to William Crookes and Swartz does not believe in any absolute primacy of foreign or of domestic policy, although he does Oliver Lodge in physics. With its heavy reliance on biography, this book, believe that 'Tor Lord Beaconsfield foreign policy not surprisingly, fails almost entirely to account for was an extension of politics" (p. 82). The Parliamen- the spiritualist movement in terras beyond those of tary Reform Act of 1867 nearly doubled the British individual psychology. Evidently distrustful of socio- electorate to two million, or 40 percent of adult logical theorizing, Oppenheim fastens herself to the males. Politicians therefore had to reassess their 
TI - marvin swartz. The Politics of British Foreign Policy in the Era of Disraeli and Gladstone. New York: St. Martin's. 1985. Pp. xiii, 221. $27.50
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/91.2.399
DA - 1986-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/marvin-swartz-the-politics-of-british-foreign-policy-in-the-era-of-yfssLxkXjZ
SP - 399
EP - 400
VL - 91
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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