Download or read book The Forgotten Prime Minister The 14th Earl of Derby written by Angus Hawkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever full biographical study of Lord Derby - the first British statesman to become prime minister three times and the longest serving leader in the history of British party politics. A book that is likely to seriously affect the way we think not only about Derby himself, but also about Victorian politics and society more generally.
Download or read book Mary Countess of Derby and the Politics of Victorian Britain written by Jennifer Davey and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Mary Derby (1824-1900) occupied a pivotal position in Victorian politics, yet her activities have largely been overlooked or ignored. This volume places Mary back into the political position she occupied and offers the first dedicated account of her career. Based on extensive archival research, including hitherto neglected or lost sources, this study reconstructs the political worlds Mary inhabited. Her political landscape was dominated by the machinations and intrigues of high politics and diplomacy. As Jennifer Davey uncovers, Mary's political skill and acumen were highly valued by leading politicians of the day, including Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, and she played a significant role in many of the key events of the mid-Victorian era. This included the passing of the Second Reform Act, the formation of Disraeli's 1874 Government, the Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878, and Gladstone's 1880-1885 Government. By exploring how one woman was able to exercise influence at the heart of Victorian politics, this book considers what Mary's career tells us about the nature of political life in the mid-nineteenth century. It sheds new light on the connections between informal and formal political culture, incorporating the politics of the home, letter-writing, and social relations into a consideration of the politics of Parliament and Government. It provides a rich investigation of how a woman, with few legal or constitutional rights, was able to become a significant figure in mid-Victorian political life.
Download or read book Farther Facts connected with the West Indies A second letter to W E Gladstone written by Edward Henry Stanley Earl of Derby and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forgotten Prime Minister written by Angus Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy 1852 1878 written by Geoff Hicks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edited collection of primary, documentary material pertaining to Conservative governments' foreign policy between 1852 and 1878.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume 23 1875 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: Volume 23 includes letters from 1875, the year in which Darwin wrote and published Insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the reading public, and started writing Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. The volume contains an appendix on the 1875 anti-vivisection debates, with which Darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a Royal Commission on the subject.
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Letters of William Morris Volume I written by William Morris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of William Morris (1834-1896) is revealed in significant new detail by his complete surviving correspondence, brought together here for the first time and including many previously unpublished letters. This collection not only bears witness to Morris's day-to-day activities and friendships, but also reflects his keen response to landscape and architecture, his sense of social responsibility, and his interest in the techniques of the applied arts. Volume I covers Morris's student days at Oxford and marriage to Jane Burden; the first twenty years of Morris and Co.; his success as a poet with the publication of The Earthly Paradise; his two trips to Iceland; the moves to Kelmscott Manor and Kelmscott House; and the start of his socialist career. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849 1873 written by John Stuart Mill and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1972-12-15 with total page 2399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, published in two volumes in 1963, were well received by critics and scholars alike. The publication of these four volumes of later letters completes this edition of Mill's personal correspondence. These volumes contain over 1,800 letters, most never before published, and some sixty earlier letters that have come to light since the publication of the first two volumes of correspondence. The letters have been assembled from widely dispersed collections in the libraries of fifty-eight institutions and of some thirty private collections in Britain and in other countries of the Commonwealth, Europe, and North America. In addition, many personal letters of which no originals survived have been located in contemporary periodicals or biographies of Mill's correspondence.
Download or read book The Lion and the Unicorn written by Richard Aldous and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant account of the dramatic confrontation between the two "mighty opposites" of the Victorian age highlights political giants William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli.
Download or read book The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney written by Allan Pritchard and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal Navy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush. A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope Verney corresponded on a regular basis with his father, a prominent British MP. In his letters, which are filled with lively narration and description, candid commentary, and fascinating personal detail, he talks about having 'the opportunity to observe a colony in [its first] stage of existence' and to 'watch the development of a community.'
Download or read book Peace war and party politics written by Geoffrey Hicks and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace, war and party politics examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Party’s significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britain’s relations with Europe. The book considers the Conservatives’ response – in opposition and government – to the tumultuous era of Napoleon III, the Crimean war and Italian unification. Within a clear chronological framework, it focuses on ‘high’ politics, and offers a detailed account of the party’s foreign policy in government under its longest-serving but forgotten leader, the fourteenth Earl of Derby. It attaches equal significance to domestic politics, and incorporates a provocative new analysis of Disraeli’s role in internal tussles over policy, illuminating the roots of the power struggle he would later win against Derby’s son in the 1870s. Overall, it helps to provide us with a fuller picture of mid-Victorian Britain’s engagement with the world. This book will be of use to those teaching and studying Victorian politics and foreign policy at all levels in higher education.
Download or read book The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 3 written by Marie Mulvey-Roberts and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1858, Rosina Bulwer Lytton was incarcerated in a lunatic asylum by her husband, the eminent Victorian politician and novelist, Edward Bulwer Lytton. After the disintegration of their marriage, Rosina wrote letters to prominent figures in which she revealed details about Edward's mistresses and illegitimate children.
Download or read book Disraeli written by Paul Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jew and Anglican, outsider and insider, nationalist and European, Romantic and Tory; Paul Smith shows how this unique fuse formed Disraeli's success.
Download or read book Balfour s World written by Nancy W. Ellenberger and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of political culture in Britain in the last decades of the nineteenth century, revealing how Arthur Balfour and his circle served as a clear bridge between the Victorians and the moderns in Britain's twentieth-century political culture.
Download or read book Visitation of England and Wales written by Joseph Jackson Howard and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion and Politics in the Risorgimento written by D. Raponi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception of Italy. It puts religion at the centre of a harsh political and cultural war, one that was fought on international, diplomatic, and domestic levels.
