Author: Sir Spencer WalpolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Life of Lord John Russell
Author: Sir Spencer WalpoleLord John Russell
Author: Paul SchererPublisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"This biography also adds considerable information about Russell's private life, which has not appeared in any previous biography, much of it based in private letters not heretofore used by historians."--BOOK JACKET.
The Life of Lord John Russell
Author: Spencer WalpoleThe Life of Lord John Russell
Author: Sir Spencer WalpolePublisher: Haskell House
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Biography of the noted 19th century statesman & champion of parliamentary reform, & grandfather of Bertrand Russell. Portraits.
Lord John Russell
Author: Stuart Johnson ReidPublisher: London Dent 1895.
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II (Vol. 1-3)
Author: Henry HallamPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Constitutional History of England, from Henry VII to George II is a three volume work concerning political history of England. The work deals with major institutional features of society: the feudal system, the ecclesiastical system, and the political system of England, portraying society, commerce, manners, and literature. The author covers the period from late 15th to mid-18th century, namely from the accession of Henry VII, carrying it down to the accession of George III, stopping here because he was unwilling to touch on issues of contemporary politics.
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Cambridge Modern History
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The Pasha
Author: Letitia W. UffordPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786428937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
With striking parallels to recent confrontations in Iraq, this is the story of the first Western international coalition to suppress an aggressive Middle Eastern ruler. The challenger was Mehemet Ali Pasha, called the founder of modern Egypt. Convinced that the Europeans would never be able to unite against him, he sought, with charm, brilliance and bravado, to create a powerful Muslim counterweight to the encroaching West. Drawing on research on three continents, this timely book takes the reader into the heart of a crisis as France, Great Britain, the Ottoman government and the Pasha of Egypt maneuver to defend their interests in the Eastern Mediterranean. Here are the passionate debates among French and British politicians as they struggle to control the Pasha without provoking a European war. Here are the battlefields--from the Euphrates to Beirut--on which Mehemet Ali's modernizing forces created the facts that fed the crisis. Here are the Sultan's ministers at Istanbul, buffeted by the threats of European ambassadors. And here, in confrontation, is the fascinating Mehemet Ali Pasha, in constant conversation with those seeking to deflect him from his dangerous ambition. As France began the fortification of Paris, as Prussia contemplated the French threat of a war on the Rhine and as British warships flooded the Mediterranean, Mehemet Ali sat cross-legged on his sumptuous divan, looking from his palace out over his beautiful fleet at anchor in the bay of Alexandria, and challenged the western world.
Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852
Author: Rory MuirPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300214049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
The preeminent Wellington biographer presents a fascinating reassessment of the Duke’s most famous victory and his political career after Waterloo. The Duke of Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from over. He commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s cabinet, and became prime minister in 1828. He later served as a senior minister in Robert Peel’s government and remained Commander-in-Chief of the Army for a decade until his death in 1852. In this richly detailed work, the second and concluding volume of Rory Muir’s definitive biography, the author offers a substantial reassessment of Wellington’s significance as a politician and a nuanced view of the private man behind the legendary hero. Muir presents new insights into Wellington’s determination to keep peace at home and abroad, achieved by maintaining good relations with the Continental powers, resisting radical agitation, and granting political equality to the Catholics in Ireland. Countering one-dimensional image of Wellington as a national hero, Muir paints a nuanced portrait of a man whose austere public demeanor belied his entertaining, gossipy, generous, and unpretentious private self.