Author: David Brown
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engineered the defeat of the Russians in the Crimean War, and played a major role in the development of liberalism and the Liberal Party. This comprehensive biography, informed by unprecedented research in the statesman's personal archives, gives full weight not only to Palmerston's foreign policy achievements, but also to his domestic political activity, political thought, life as a landlord, and private life and affairs. Through the lens of the milieu of his times, the book pinpoints for the first time the nature and extent of Palmerston's contributions to the making of modern Britain.
Palmerston
Author: David Brown
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engineered the defeat of the Russians in the Crimean War, and played a major role in the development of liberalism and the Liberal Party. This comprehensive biography, informed by unprecedented research in the statesman's personal archives, gives full weight not only to Palmerston's foreign policy achievements, but also to his domestic political activity, political thought, life as a landlord, and private life and affairs. Through the lens of the milieu of his times, the book pinpoints for the first time the nature and extent of Palmerston's contributions to the making of modern Britain.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engineered the defeat of the Russians in the Crimean War, and played a major role in the development of liberalism and the Liberal Party. This comprehensive biography, informed by unprecedented research in the statesman's personal archives, gives full weight not only to Palmerston's foreign policy achievements, but also to his domestic political activity, political thought, life as a landlord, and private life and affairs. Through the lens of the milieu of his times, the book pinpoints for the first time the nature and extent of Palmerston's contributions to the making of modern Britain.
Lord Palmerston's Foreign Policy in Western Europe 1846-1851
Author: Louise Griepenstroh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Modern English Biography
Author: Frederic Boase
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, 1783-1919
Author: Adolphus William Ward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108040136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 715
Book Description
Published between 1922 and 1923, the first comprehensive survey of foreign policy during Britain's emergence as a major international power.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108040136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 715
Book Description
Published between 1922 and 1923, the first comprehensive survey of foreign policy during Britain's emergence as a major international power.
the cambridge history of british foreign policy 1783-1919
Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
El Dorado-Greaves
Author: Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
History for Ready Reference ...
Author: Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
History for Ready Reference: El Dorado-Greaves
Author: Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
History for Ready Reference, from the Best Historians, Biographers, and Specialists: El Dorado-Greaves
Author: Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
The Book Buyer
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description