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Palmerston : a biography /

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, engine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, David, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About Harry, 1784-1800
  • North and south, 1800-1806
  • War and peace, 1806-1828
  • The making of Palmerston I: Lord Cupid, Irish landlord
  • The making of Palmerston II: the politician
  • The Whig foreign secretary, 1830-1834
  • Palmerston, Rex and autocrat, 1835-1841
  • The absentee, 1841-1846
  • The gunpowder minister, 1846-1851
  • The people's minister, 1852-1855
  • The mortal minister, 1855-1859
  • The prime minister, 1859-1865.