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Book Speeches of Richard Cobden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Cobden
  • Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781437098624
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Speeches of Richard Cobden written by Richard Cobden and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Richard Cobden

Download or read book The Letters of Richard Cobden written by Anthony Howe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-65) aims in four printed volumes to provide the first critical edition of Cobden's letters, publishing the complete text in as near the original form as possible, accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, together with an introduction to each volume re-assessing Cobden's importance in their light. As a whole these volumes will make available a unique source of the understanding of British liberalism in its European and international contexts, throwing new light on issues such as the repeal of the Corn Laws, British radical movements, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, Anglo-French relations, and the American Civil War. The second volume, drawing on over fifty archives world-wide, follows the career of Richard Cobden from that of the 'Manchester Manufacturer' who had gained celebrity in the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 to that of the dominant Radical leader on the British political scene between 1848 and 1853, widely considered by contemporaries equal in importance to the leaders of the Whig and Conservative parties. Cobden in this period was concerned with an inter-connected series of movements which sought in different ways to reduce aristocratic power in Victorian Britain. These included the reform of parliament (especially through the secret ballot), of landownership, of government finances, of the British empire, as well as the introduction of state education. At the same time we see the emergence of Cobden 'the International Man', with a cosmopolitan following, playing a pivotal role in the global peace movement, and articulating a wide-ranging critique of British foreign policy, with regard to the dangers of French invasion, the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848, British expansionism in India, and the ramifications of the Eastern Question as Britain drifted towards war in the Crimea. Although in his own day, Cobden's radical ideas increasingly separated him from many contemporaries, in the longer term they became a vital tributary of nineteenth-century British and international liberalism.

Book Cobden as a Citizen

Download or read book Cobden as a Citizen written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America

Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America

Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Book King Leopold s Ghostwriter

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  • Author : Andrew Fitzmaurice
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2024-12-17
  • ISBN : 0691241074
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book King Leopold s Ghostwriter written by Andrew Fitzmaurice and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809–1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe. Yet Twiss’s life was defined by two events that threatened to undermine the order that he had so stoutly defended: a notorious social scandal and the creation of the Congo Free State. In King Leopold’s Ghostwriter, Andrew Fitzmaurice tells the incredible story of a man who, driven by personal events that transformed him from a reactionary to a reformer, rewrote and liberalised international law—yet did so in service of the most brutal regime of the colonial era. In an elaborate deception, Twiss and Pharaïlde van Lynseele, a Belgian prostitute, sought to reinvent her as a woman of suitably noble birth to be his wife. Their subterfuge collapsed when another former client publicly denounced van Lynseele. Disgraced, Twiss resigned his offices and the couple fled to Switzerland. But this failure set the stage for a second, successful act of re-creation. Twiss found new employment as the intellectual driving force of King Leopold of Belgium’s efforts to have the Congo recognised as a new state under his personal authority. Drawing on extensive new archival research, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter recounts Twiss’s story as never before, including how his creation of a new legal personhood for the Congo was intimately related to the earlier invention of a new legal personhood for his wife. Combining gripping biography and penetrating intellectual history, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter uncovers a dramatic, ambiguous life that has had lasting influence on international law.

Book A Global History of Trade and Conflict since 1500

Download or read book A Global History of Trade and Conflict since 1500 written by L. Coppolaro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the causes and consequences of the intersection of two transformative global forces - trade and conflict – since 1500. The nine historical case studies – interspersed over 500 years and spanning the globe - make a major historical contribution to the enduring debate about whether trade makes peace more likely.

Book Memoirs of the War of Independence in Hungary

Download or read book Memoirs of the War of Independence in Hungary written by György Klapka and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Meliora

Download or read book Meliora written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors  in Health and Disease

Download or read book On the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors in Health and Disease written by William Benjamin Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: