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Book My Lord Salisbury

Download or read book My Lord Salisbury written by Nicky Webster and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicky Webster's short biography, “My Lord" Salisbury, explores the life of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury ( 17th April 1791 - 12 April 1868 ), a British Conservative politician. Until now, there has been no published biographical work on the 2nd Marquess. He has figured but briefly in books about other members of the Cecil family and, reduced to little more than anecdote, he is portrayed as a petty local martinet. Yet the archive of his correspondence held at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire suggests a different man. The minutes of the House of Lords show a thinking member of the Upper House, deeply committed to the parliamentary process and the rule of law. More intimate correspondence with members of his family reveals a husband, a father and a brother who experienced the joys, the sorrows and the frustrations of family life. This new work will appeal to readers who are interested in the 18th and 19th century aristocracy, and also those who would like to access well researched accounts of historical figures. Not just for the academic and professional reader, this concise, clear biography presents a solid understanding of the life and multi-faceted personality of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury. It is an informative but at the same time an entertaining and easy read.

Book Lord Salisbury s World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Bentley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2001-09-06
  • ISBN : 1139429043
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Lord Salisbury s World written by Michael Bentley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Salisbury (1830–1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This important study moves away from conventional biography and presents an original portrait of the mental world inhabited by late Victorian Conservatives at the time when their world-view was coming under severe strain. At the centre of the picture is the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, but Lord Salisbury's World does not simply tell the story of his life and politics. Instead, it asks sensitive questions about how the political, intellectual and religious environments of the late Victorian period seemed to one of its sharpest intellects, and it situates Salisbury and his immediate entourage in a wide landscape of relationships, perceptions and problems. Professor Bentley takes the reader into Conservative assumptions about time and space, property and society, religion and the state, and the past and the future - the very language in which they expressed themselves.

Book The World s Great Classics  Orations of British orators

Download or read book The World s Great Classics Orations of British orators written by Timothy Dwight and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor.

Book Salisbury

Download or read book Salisbury written by Andrew Roberts and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Salisbury dominated the late Victorian political scene. He was Prime Minister for much of the time and also Foreign Secretary, very often holding down the two positions concurrently. In achievement and ability he was at least the equal of Disraeli and Gladstone though less well remembered. In part that was the result of his own aloof and laodicean temperament but it was also the fault of there being no faintly adequate modern biography (his daughter, Lady Gwendolen Cecil wrote a magnificent biography early in the twentieth-century but although in four volumes it only got as far as 1892). At last, in 1999 with the publication of Andrew Roberts' biography this desideratum was filled. Here was the biography of sufficient stature to do justice to the Victorian Titan. Most aptly it went on to win the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction. The uniformly outstanding reviews prove why. 'Andrew Roberts has filled one of the great gaps in Victorian historiography. This is the first authoritative life of the statesman who dominated politics from 1885 to 1902 . . . A brilliant biography that will long replace anything which has appeared before.' Robert Blake, Daily Telegraph 'This is a biography of quite unusual quality and insight, tautly organized yet flowing easily, with years of research behind it to reinforce its authority. While not seeking to diminish either Gladstone or Disraeli, it restores Salisbury to the commanding position he rightfully occupied in Victorian politics.' Peter Clarke, Sunday Times 'An outstanding achievement . . . seldom has such an important study been such splendid entertainment.' Piers Brendon, Independent 'This is a book to put on one's shelf alongside Ehrman's Younger Pitt, Gash's volumes on Peel and Blake's Disraeli . . . Andrew Roberts' book has the balance, insight all-roundedness and intellectual elegance of Lord Salisbury himself.' A. D. Harvey, Salisbury Review '(Salisbury) deserves, and has found, a fine biographer, who has left no stone unturned in his researches, has written cogently and well about his subject, and provided not just a history of Lord Salisbury, but one of the best histories yet of Victorian Britain and her place in the world.' Simon Heffer, Daily Mail ' Salisbury is a great biography, magisterially proportioned and fit to take its place with Gash on Peel and Blake on Disraeli, if not with Morley's Gladstone. Moreover, although constructed on a massive scale, it is so beautifully written that one could not want it a page shorter. It is unlikely ever to be superseded.' Vernon Bogdanor, Times Higher Educational Supplement 'Roberts triumphantly retrieves Salisbury from unmerited obscurity with a book as delightful to read as it is informative.' Niall Ferguson, Mail on Sunday 'A terrific piece of biography; I really enjoyed it.' Jeremy Paxman, Start the Week 'Andrew Roberts' Salisbury fills a most remarkable gap in British historiography with a study that that is not only learned and comprehensive but startlingly well-written.' Michael Howard, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'It captures the essence of Salisbury in a way that nothing has has ever done for me before.' Roy Jenkins, Financial Times

Book The World s Greatest Literature

Download or read book The World s Greatest Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World s Great Classics

Download or read book The World s Great Classics written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lord Salisbury

Download or read book Lord Salisbury written by Dr E David Steele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a study of Lord Salisbury, British prime minister in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, whose political philosophy was reactionary and defeatist, and who is remembered for an irony that was wounding as well as diverting.

Book The World s Chronicle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eleanor Atkinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The World s Chronicle written by Eleanor Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lord of the Deep

Download or read book Lord of the Deep written by Graham Salisbury and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishing. This is it, the big time. Mikey's 13, a deckhand working on a charter boat in Hawaii. Working for the best skipper anywhere, his stepdad, Bill. Before Bill came along, it was just Mikey and his mom. Now they're a real family, and Mikey has a little brother. He can't believe how lucky he is. And now he's learning from the best, even though he's only 13. Because Bill believes in him. And Mikey won't let him down. He loves fishing and being out on the boat. But some seas, some fish, and some charter clients are a lot tougher to handle than Mikey ever imagined. Take Ernie and Cal—they chartered Bill's boat for three days and they’re out for the adventure of their lives. Now it's up to Mikey and Bill to deliver it.

Book Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy

Download or read book Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy written by John Ashley Soames Grenville and published by London : U. of London. This book was released on 1964 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Making use of the wealth of private and official correspondence that has become available to the historian during the last ten years, Dr. Grenville here offers a general account of the diplomatic history of the years of Lord Salisbury's last administration, 1895-1902, and examines afresh the causes and nature of the significant change which occurred in the direction of British foreign policy." - from dust jacket

Book The World s Work

Download or read book The World s Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harper s Weekly

Download or read book Harper s Weekly written by John Bonner and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Independent and Weekly Review

Download or read book Independent and Weekly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Security and Progress

Download or read book Security and Progress written by Paul R. Brumpton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the imperial policies of Salisbury and "liberal" notions of empire after the Indian Mutiny.

Book School Reform in a Global Society

Download or read book School Reform in a Global Society written by William Edwin Segall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relations between global wealth and poverty, American and European elites and Third World indigenous societies and the role schools play in the destruction of cultures. This book examines how the dark underside of capitalism, called neoliberalism, is using schools to destroy an American generation.