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Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan wars : the battle over imperial intervention in the Victorian age / Fergus Nicoll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicoll, Fergus, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898.
- Gladstone, W. E.
- Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885.
- Gordon, Charles George.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--1837-1901.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--Sudan.
- Sudan--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Sudan.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.
- Sudan--History--1881-1899.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (422 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- General Gordon's death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 - and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi - was a crucial episode in British imperial history. It was deeply controversial at the time, and it still is today. Gordon has routinely been depicted as the hero of the story, in contrast to Prime Minister Gladstone who is often portrayed as the villain of the piece, responsible for a 'policy of drift' in Sudan.Fergus Nicoll's radical reappraisal, which is based on eyewitness accounts and previously unpublished archive material, refutes the conventional image of both men. Pres
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Dramatis Personae; Introduction: 'A true and equitable judgement'; Chapter 1: Non-interventionism: policy and practice; Chapter 2: From Egypt into Sudan?; Chapter 3: 'Gordon for the Soudan!'; Chapter 4: Gladstone struggles to retain control; Chapter 5: 'No end to our responsibilities'; Chapter 6: 'A snob and a self-interested man'; Chapter 7: Gladstone's policy victory; Chapter 8: Gladstone's defeat and the seeds of future policy; Notes; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781473822535
- 147382253X
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