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Author Brown, David

Title Palmerston
Published Cumberland : Yale University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (591 pages)
Contents 3228_00_FM.pdf; 3228_00a_INTRO.pdf; 3228_01_CH01.pdf; 3228_02_CH02.pdf; 3228_03_CH03.pdf; 3228_04_CH04.pdf; 3228_05_CH05.pdf; 3228_06_CH06.pdf; 3228_07_CH07.pdf; 3228_08_CH08.pdf; 3228_09_CH09.pdf; 3228_10_CH10.pdf; 3228_11_CH11.pdf; 3228_12_CH12.pdf; 3228_13_CH13.pdf; 3228_14_ABB.pdf; 3228_15_NOTES.pdf; 3228_16_INDEX.pdf
Summary 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
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Subject Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865.
SUBJECT Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865 fast
Subject Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
Politics and government
Prime ministers
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056914
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300168440
0300168446