Author: William Robertson (of Rochdale.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Author: William Robertson (reporter.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: William Robertson (of Rochdale.)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: George Barnett Smith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385442451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author: Bill Cash
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 085772083X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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John Bright was one of the greatest British statesmen of the nineteenth century. In a series of Punch cartoons in 1878, Bright featured alongside Disraeli and Gladstone as among the most influential politicians of the age. However, his profound contribution to British politics and society has been virtually forgotten in the modern world. Bright played a critical role in many of the most important political movements of the Victorian era, from the repeal of the Corn Laws to Home Rule. In his great campaign leading up to the Reform Act 1867, he fought for parliamentary reform on behalf of the working class and for the abolition of newspaper taxes. Internationally renowned as an orator, he was a dedicated opponent of slavery and champion of the North in the American Civil War. His testimonial for Abraham Lincoln's re-election was found in the President's pocket on his assassination. He was vigorously opposed to the Crimean War and campaigned against the oppression of the Irish tenantry and colonial subjects throughout the Empire. Fiercely independent, he eventually split from the Liberal Party over Home Rule, becoming a Liberal Unionist. In this new biography, the first for over 30 years, Bill Cash provides an incisive and engaging portrait of a man who influenced the politics of his generation more than virtually any other, with important implications for the present day.

Author: George Barnett Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Author: William Robertson (reporter.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: George Barnett Smith
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Author: Michael H. Shirley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351788183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more students to British history than any other American historian. This collection of essays by some of his former students celebrates Arnstein's inspirational teaching and writing with surveys and analyses of various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Nineteenth-century topics covered in the volume include early Victorian caricatures and the thin legal lines that they often trod; British Army fashion and its contribution to Royal spectacles; Free Trade Radicals and how they viewed educational reform and moral progress; the persistence of Chartist ideology following the failure of the movement in 1848; Disraeli and Derby's involvement with the Navy's administration; religious periodicals and their influence; the myth of Bismarck as an honest broker of peace and the subsequent collapse of the myth as a later source of enmity in Anglo-German relations; the powerful mystique evoked back in England by the London missionary societies Mongolian; missions; Victorian urban planning and the re-introduction of the market place.

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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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