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Author : George H. Bennett
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ISBN 13 : 9780889464506
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (645 download)
Download or read book The Later Life of Lord Curzon of Kedleston written by George H. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Henry Bennett
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ISBN 13 : 9780889464506
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (645 download)
Download or read book The Later Life of Lord Curzon of Kedleston--aristocrat, Writer, Politician, Statesman written by George Henry Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Henry Bennett
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Later Life of Lord Curzon of Kedleston--aristocrat, Writer, Politician, Statesman written by George Henry Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Curzon was one of the most significant figures in British politics in the early 20th century. This text examines a comparatively neglected period of his life: the period 1906 to 1925. During this last phase of his life he struggled to rebuild his career and life after suffering the humiliation of resigning as Viceroy of India in 1905, and the death of his wife in 1906. This study examines various facets of his life in detail, including his roles as husband and father, aristocrat, member of the Conservative party, leader of the Government in the House of Lords, statesman and politician. It casts new light on his career as a writer. It also seeks to make a contribution to the growing debate about how biography is written.
Author : Earl Of Ronaldshay
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ISBN 13 : 9781436679503
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (795 download)
Download or read book The Life of Lord Curzon: Being the Authorized Biography of George Nathaniel Marquess Curzon of Kedleston written by Earl Of Ronaldshay and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Jay Winter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192698273
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Day the Great War Ended, 24 July 1923 written by Jay Winter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers came from Ankara and Athens, from London, Paris, and Rome, and from other capital cities to affirm that war was over. The Treaty they signed fixed the boundaries of present-day Greece and Turkey, and marked a beginning of a new phase in their history. That was its major achievement, but it came at a high price. The Treaty contained within it a Compulsory Population Exchange agreement. By that measure, Greek-Orthodox citizens of Turkey, with the exception of those living in Constantinople, lost the right of citizenship and residence in that state. So did Muslim citizens of Greece, except for residents of Western Thrace. This exchange of nearly two million people, introduced to the peace conference by Nobel Prize winner and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, provided a solution to the immense refugee problem arising out of the Greek-Turkish war. At the same time, it introduced into international law a definition of citizenship defined not by language or history or ethnicity, but solely by religion. This set a precedent for ethnic cleansing followed time and again later in the century and beyond. The second price of peace was the burial of commitments to the Armenian people that they would have a homeland in the lands from which they had been expelled, tortured and murdered in the genocide of 1915. This book tells the story of the peace conference, and its outcome. It shows how peace came before justice, and how it set in motion forces leading to the global war that followed in 1939.
Author : James Parker
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 031328122X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Lord Curzon, 1859-1925 written by James Parker and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1991-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Nathaniel Curzon, first Marquis Curzon of Kedleston was, perhaps, the most important British statesman of the modern era not to become prime minister. A statesman, historian, and traveler, Curzon was seen as a political figure who achieved successes rather than success. After achieving distinctions at Eton and Oxford, Curzon became private secretary to the new prime minister Lord Salisbury in 1885. In 1886 he was elected to the House of Commons. Posts as under secretary at the India Office and under secretary for foreign affairs followed; at the same time he was in great demand as a writer, providing accounts of his travels and his political views. In 1898 he became Viceroy of India. After serving as chancellor of Oxford University, he entered Lloyd George's War Cabinet, and, in 1919, was appointed foreign secretary. A Tory reformer and spokesman for Britain's imperial mission, today Curzon may be best remembered for extending Western knowledge of Indian art, archeology, and literature. This is the first book-length bibliography ever published on Lord Curzon. It examines his private and official papers as well as his writings and the numerous publications and other materials dealing with him and his family. In addition, the volume contains a sketch of his life and career, a chronology, and author, subject, and serial publications indexes. This is a invaluable resource for scholars and researchers on British imperialism, foreign affairs, and politics.
Author : Vincent L. Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317145151
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman written by Vincent L. Barnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the authorial and cross-media practices of the English novelist Elinor Glyn (1864-1943), Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman examines Glyn’s work as a novelist in the United Kingdom followed by her success in Hollywood where she adapted her popular romantic novels into films. Making extensive use of newly available archival materials, Vincent L. Barnett and Alexis Weedon explore Glyn’s experiences from multiple perspectives, including the artistic, legal and financial aspects of the adaptation process. At the same time, they document Glyn’s personal and professional relationships with a number of prominent individuals in the Hollywood studio system, including Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg. The authors contextualize Glyn’s involvement in scenario-writing in relationship to other novelists in Hollywood, such as Edgar Wallace and Arnold Bennett, and also show how Glyn worked across Europe and America to transform her stories into other forms of media such as plays and movies. Providing a new perspective from which to understand the historical development of both British and American media industries in the first half of the twentieth century, this book will appeal to historians working in the fields of cultural and film studies, publishing and business history.
Author : Victor Madeira
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843838958
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Britannia and the Bear written by Victor Madeira and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new narrative about how two Great Powers of the early twentieth century did battle, both openly and in the shadows Decades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging. But for Bolshevik Russia, Great Britain - not America - was the enemy. Now, for the first time, Victor Madeira tells a story that has been hidden away for nearly a century. Drawing on over sixty Russian, British and French archival collections, Britannia and the Bear offers a compelling new narrative about how two great powers of the time did battle, both openly and in theshadows. By exploring British and Russian mind-sets of the time this book traces the links between wartime social unrest, growing trade unionism in the police and the military, and Moscow's subsequent infiltration of Whitehall. As early as 1920, Cabinet ministers were told that Bolshevik intelligence wanted to recruit university students from prominent families destined for government, professional and intellectual circles. Yet despite these early warnings, men such as the Cambridge Five slipped the security net fifteen years after the alarm was first raised. Britannia and the Bear tells the story of Russian espionage in Britain in these critical interwar years and reveals how British Government identified crucial lessons but failed to learn many of them. The book underscores the importance of the first Cold War in understanding the second, as well as the need for historical perspective ininterpreting the mind-sets of rival powers. Victor Madeira has a decade's experience in international security affairs, and his work has appeared in leading publications such as Intelligence and National Securityand The Historical Journal. He completed his doctorate in Modern International History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Author : Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life of Lord Curzon written by Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl Of Ronaldshay
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ISBN 13 : 9781494089382
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (893 download)
Download or read book The Life of Lord Curzon written by Earl Of Ronaldshay and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Author : Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Earl of Ronaldshay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Life of Lord Curzon written by Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Earl of Ronaldshay and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kurt von S. Kynell
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773478732
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Saxon and Medieval Antecedents of the English Common Law written by Kurt von S. Kynell and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to legal history, utilizing law, linguistics, cultural anthropology and social history to document and analyze the slow but steady growth of the English common law from Anglo-Saxon times to the 19th century.
Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466829990
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Curzon written by David Gilmour and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Superb New Biography . . . A Tragic Story, Brilliantly Told." —Andrew Roberts, Literary Review George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of his country's empire to the traumatized years following World War I. As viceroy of India under Queen Victoria and foreign secretary under King George V, the obsessive Lord Curzon left his unmistakable mark on the era. David Gilmour's award-winning book—with a new foreword by the author—is a brilliant assessment of Curzon's character and achievements, offering a richly dramatic account of the infamous long vendettas, the turbulent friendships, and the passionate, risky love affairs that complicated and enriched his life. Born into the ruling class of what was then the world's greatest power, Curzon was a fervent believer in British imperialism who spent his life proving he was fit for the task. Often seen as arrogant and tempestuous, he was loathed as much as he was adored, his work disparaged as much as it was admired. In Gilmour's well-rounded appraisal, Curzon emerges as a complex, tragic figure, a gifted leader who saw his imperial world overshadowed at the dawn of democracy.
Author : Karl W. Schweizer
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Statesmen, Diplomats, and the Press-essays on 18th Century Britain written by Karl W. Schweizer and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven essays in this volume entail three broad themes, first, the dynamics of national policy making during the Hanoverian period: secondly, the role of diplomats in the formulation as well as execution of foreign policy: thirdly, the political impact of the press. Cabinets regularly led by dukes who engaged in arcane maneuvers such as forcing the Closet spread a musty scent of the antique over eighteenth-century politics. Yet the era was also the forcing ground of modern society and no period in British history now has so exciting or controversial a historiography. Globalization, industrialization, the rise of nationalism, imperialism, the emergence of a free press, and numerous other vital themes reverberate among what was once seen as a time veiled in cobwebs. Karl Schweizer's essays illuminate a number of the most important issues currently under scrutiny by historians. Many of his pieces are focused around the crucial decades of the mid-century when the monarchy, parliamentary government, the shaping of public opinion, the conduct of war, and diplomacy were all being tested and reshaped. Not only does his work illuminate these problems in new ways, but also his masterly
Author : Andrew G. Newby
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of Edward McHugh (1853-1915), Land Reformer, Trade Unionist, and Labour Activist written by Andrew G. Newby and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward McHugh (1853-1915) spent a great deal of his lifetime engaged in the struggle for social reform not only in Great Britain and Ireland, but also further afield, including spells in America and the Antipodes. Born in rural County Tyrone to a smallholding family, before emigrating through economic necessity to the overcrowded industrial landscape of Greenock, and then Glasgow, McHugh shared with his friend, Michael Davitt, experience of both sides of the land question. It is not surprising that, having witnessed rural and urban poverty at an early age, McHugh would become firmly committed to the ideals of Henry George, and convinced that land, and its inequitable distribution, should lie at the root of all social ills. After moving to Glasgow as a teenager to find work as a compositor, McHugh found himself in a city with various possibilities for developing his education as a social reformer. The Irish who had fled to the city in such numbers after the Great Famine were finally starting to organise themselves politically. Highlands as a result either of the Clearances or the region's own famine in the 1840s, were contemplating the conditions in which the working classes of Glasgow, and other towns in Scotland, were forced to live. As a member of the Glasgow Home Rule Association, and then the secretary of the Glasgow branch of the Irish Land League, McHugh was singled out as a speaker and organiser of ability, and was chosen to lead a Land League mission to the Scottish Highlands in order to direct the nascent crofters' agitation along radical lines. After the death of the Land League, McHugh toured Scotland with Henry George himself, and helped to found the Scottish Land Restoration League, a body dedicated to taxing land values to their full extent, thereby abolishing landlordism. The ability shown by McHugh was then harnessed by the Trades Union movement, as he and his old friend Richard McGhee formed and ran the National Union of Dock Labourers, sustaining them through bitter strikes in Glasgow (1889), and Liverpool (1890). This latter strike was a turning point in McHugh's domestic life, as he settled then in Birkenhead. McHugh remained active in the Trade Unionism, spending the years 1896-1899 in New York, organising the American Longshoremen's Union, and preaching the 'Single Tax Gospel.' The fact that McHugh was with Henry George at the time of the latter's untimely death in 1897 gave the Ulsterman a great cache in Single Tax circles for the rest of his life, and on returning to Birkenhead he settled down and spent the rest of his life striving for social reform through the propagation of the George's theories.
Author : Earl of Ronaldshay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The life of Lord Curzon written by Earl of Ronaldshay and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Gilmour
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ISBN 13 : 9780333644065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Curzon written by David Gilmour and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
