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Author : Earl Of Ronaldshay
Publisher :
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 : 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 : George Nathaniel Curzon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108080847
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Persia and the Persian Question written by George Nathaniel Curzon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of edition published by Longmans, Green, and Co. in 1892.
Author : Anne de Courcy
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225741
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Viceroy's Daughters written by Anne de Courcy and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon's determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father. The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the Twenties and Thirties. Irene, intensely musical and a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. Cynthia ('Cimmie') married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. Alexandra ('Baba'), the youngest and most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales's best friend Fruity Metcalfe. On Cimmie's early death in 1933 Baba flung herself into a long and passionate affair with Mosley and a liaison with Mussolini's ambassador to London, Count Dino Grandi, while enjoying the romantic devotion of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. The sisters see British fascism from behind the scenes, and the arrival of Wallis Simpson and the early married life of the Windsors. The war finds them based at 'the Dorch' (the Dorchester Hotel) doing good works. At the end of their extraordinary lives, Irene and Baba have become, rather improbably, pillars of the establishment, Irene being made one of the very first Life Peers in 1958 for her work with youth clubs.
Author : George Henry Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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 : Nayana Goradia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lord Curzon written by Nayana Goradia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet, seven years later, he was to return home a broken man, his viceroyalty in a shambles, only to be later dispossessed of the Prime Ministership he thought rightfully his. Was this the result of some fatal flaw in Curzon's personality? Curzon has certainly led his earlier biographers to think so, leaving copious writings suggesting that he was brought up by an indifferent mother, a cold father and a savage governess. But new evidence sheds a different light on a more complex personality.
Author : Margot Finn
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787350274
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 written by Margot Finn and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Author : George H. Bennett
Publisher :
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 Curzon
Publisher : OUP Pakistan
ISBN 13 : 9780199063574
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (635 download)
Download or read book On the Indian Frontier written by George Curzon and published by OUP Pakistan. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An admirable exegesis of the Pamir region's strategic importance to both Britain's Indian Empire and Russia, On the Indian Frontier is an account of a trek through the Pamirs in 1894, by a future Viceroy of India. It describes the social and political structure of these mountain fiefdoms in rich and dazzling detail.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dilks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Curzon in India written by David Dilks and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Publisher : London, Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Leaves from a Viceroy's Note-book and Other Papers written by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1926 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1903 written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Steven Kemper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022619910X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Rescued from the Nation written by Steven Kemper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka’s recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose “protestant” reformation of Buddhism drove monks toward increased political involvement and ethnic confrontation. Yet as tied to Sri Lankan nationalism as Dharmapala is in popular memory, he spent the vast majority of his life abroad, engaging other concerns. In Rescued from the Nation, Steven Kemper reevaluates this important figure in the light of an unprecedented number of his writings, ones that paint a picture not of a nationalist zealot but of a spiritual seeker earnest in his pursuit of salvation. Drawing on huge stores of source materials—nearly one hundred diaries and notebooks—Kemper reconfigures Dharmapala as a world-renouncer first and a political activist second. Following Dharmapala on his travels between East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, he traces his lifelong project of creating a unified Buddhist world, recovering the place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment, and imitating the Buddha’s life course. The result is a needed corrective to Dharmapala’s embattled legacy, one that resituates Sri Lanka’s political awakening within the religious one that was Dharmapala’s life project.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lady Mary Curzon
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lady Curzon's India written by Lady Mary Curzon and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As The Wife Of George Curzon, Viceroy Of India From 1899 To 1905, Mary Curzon Was The Youngest Woman To Become Vicereine And The Only American To Attain That Supreme Position. This Volume Collects Her Letters. First Edition. Ex-Libraries.
