Salisbury: Victorian Titan - Rilegato

Roberts, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 0297817132 ISBN 13: 9780297817130

Casa editrice: Orion, 1999

Riassunto

Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, masterminded the campaigns, alliances, treaties and pageantries which brought the British Empire to its zenith in terms of power and prestige. Prime Minister for all but four years between 1885 and 1902, it was he who, from his Jacobean palace at Hatfield, co-ordinated the subtly interlocking policies over five continents and a quarter of the globe.
A profoundly unconventional aristocrat, Lord Salisbury was witty, ironic and intellectually brilliant, but there was also a ruthless, acerbic and depressive side to his nature. In the course of a turbulent fifty-year career he won over opponents such as Disraeli and Queen Victoria, destroyed others such as Lord Randolph Churchill and Paul Kruger, brought Joseph Chamberlain and King Edward VII to heel, wrecked Gladstone's hopes for Irish Home Rule, offered secret deals to Charles Stewart Parnell and Tsar Nicholas II, saw off Otto von Bismarck and saw through Kaiser Wilhelm II.
In this comprehensive new biography, written with complete access to Salisbury's papers at Hatfield House, Andrew Roberts explores every aspect of Lord Salisbury's phenomenal statesmanship, but also his eccentric family, his journalism, his distinctive philosophy of Toryism, his passion for scientific experiments and above all, his extraordinary, complex, but ultimately hugely attractive character.

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Descrizione del libro:

Radical biography of the ruthless, aristocratic genius, Lord Salisbury ¿ Queen Victoria's Prime Minister and the mind behind the supremacy of the British Empire ¿ by one of Britain's most talented young historians.

L'autore:

Andrew Roberts took a first in Modern History at Cambridge. He has been a professional historian since the publication of his life of Lord Halifax, The Holy Fox, in 1991, followed by Eminent Churchillians in 1994. He contributes regularly to the Sunday Telegraph. His Salisbury won the Wolfson History Prize in 2000 and his other books include Napoleon and Wellington; Hitler and Churchill; What Might Have Been (editor) and A History of the English Speaking People (2006).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0297817132
• ISBN 13: 9780297817130
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 704