Sir Robert Peel: The Life and Legacy: v. 2 - Rilegato

Gaunt, Richard A.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1848850352 ISBN 13: 9781848850354

Casa editrice: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010

Riassunto

Sir Robert Peel - paragon or pariah? Peel was the greatest political leader in mid-Victorian Britain and a titan of Conservative politics. He held the greatest offices of state over a political career spanning forty years and was twice Prime Minister. He was a tireless reformer who put ""nation"" before ""party"" with a range of modernizing measures including giving political rights to Catholics, reform of banking, the railways, the criminal law and prisons, as well as founding the Metropolitan Police. He introduced ""free-trade"" budgets and repealed the Corn Laws to give cheap food to Britain's growing industrial and urban population. He was the first acknowledged leader of the Conservative Party and the Founder of Modern Conservatism. Yet Peel's seemingly peerless reputation has never been secure. Abolition of the Corn Laws split his party, his ""Peelite"" supporters joined the Liberals and the Conservatives remained in opposition for thirty years.

Richard Gaunt, drawing on a huge archive of state papers, contemporary writings -- including Peel's own memoirs -- and the latest historiography, paints a convincing picture of Peel as a exponent of effective government in the modern industrial state, of a calculating practitioner, supremely self-confident, who dominated both his Party and the House of Commons. And even Conservative ""backwoodsmen"" were moving towards Peel's new model Conservatism. Gaunt's thoughtful, revisionist study is essential for all students of Peel and mid-Victorian politics.

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Recensione:

'For anyone interested in a concise yet scholarly account of Sir Robert Peel s career, and in mid-nineteenth-century Conservative dilemmas over political reform, this short new study cannot be bettered' --Robert Carver, The Tablet

'[Gaunt] covers the whole of Peel s career and he summarises the sometimes technical debates with authority' --Eric J. Evans, History Today

'The writing is clear and historically sound, covering both Peel's career and the historiography of his reputation, and should appeal to a wide readership' --Professor David McLean, King's College, University of London

L'autore:

Richard A. Gaunt is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Nottingham and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited the diaries of a major Ultra-Tory politician of the period, Unhappy Reactionary: The Diaries of the Fourth Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme and a book of contemporary texts concerning Benjamin Disraeli. He is currently writing Conservative Politics in the Age of Reform 1780-1850 (I.B.Tauris).

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• Editore: Tauris Academic Studies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848850352
• ISBN 13: 9781848850354
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 227