Palmerston : a biography / David Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, David, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865.

Palmerston, Henry John Temple.

Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 573 p., [16] p. of plates ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, [Connecticut] ; London, [England] : Yale University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

List of Maps

A Note on Quotations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. About Harry, 1784-1800

2. North and South, 1800-1806

3. War and Peace, 1806-1828

4. The Making of Palmerston I: Lord Cupid, Irish Landlord

5. The Making of Palmerston II: The Politician

6. The Whig Foreign Secretary, 1830-1834

7. Palmerston, Rex and Autocrat, 1835-1841

8. The Absentee, 1841-1846

9. The Gunpowder Minister, 1846-1851

10. The People's Minister, 1852-1855

11. The Mortal Minister, 1855-1859

12. The Prime Minister, 1859-1865

Legacy

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-16844-6

OCLC:

953660933