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Author : Princess Dorothea Lieven
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Unpublished Diary and Political Sketches of Princess Lieven written by Princess Dorothea Lieven and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Lissauer Cromwell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786426519
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Dorothea Lieven written by Judith Lissauer Cromwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothea de Benckendorff was born December 28, 1785. Bright, vivacious and personable, she was destined to become an influential player in international diplomacy. Spending three of her most formative years in exile with her mother, Dorothea was not only the recipient of an excellent education, she was also the beneficiary of years of her mother's careful social training. She was adopted by an intimate friend of her mother, Empress Maria of Russia, after her mother's death. Dorothea's close connections to the Russian imperial family positioned her for the life role she wished to play. Marriage to Count Christopher Lieven at the age of 14 (a custom typical of the place and time) furthered Dorothea's desire to play a part in the fascinating world of politics. Beginning with her husband's appointment by Tsar Alexander I as ambassador to Great Britain, Dorothea used her intellect, charisma and social skills to become a political force in European diplomacy during the first half of the nineteenth century. This biography provides a detailed look at the life and times of Dorothea Lieven, a woman who achieved the status of an independent stateswoman in her own right in the diplomatic communities of Russia, France and England. It examines the way in which Dorothea, entrusted with a secret diplomatic overture to England by Tsar Alexander I, participated in events which culminated in the birth of modern Greece. Using Princess Lieven's memoirs and other unpublished correspondence, the work provides a perspective on four Romanov rulers--Empress Catherine, Tsar Paul I, Tsar Alexander I and Tsar Nicholas I. The extent of Dorothea's political and diplomatic influence, through her friendships with King George IV, the Duke of Wellington and Talleyrand as well as her liaisons with Clement Metternich and Francois Guizot, is also discussed. An appendix contains medical testimonial regarding the Princess' declining health as well as some of Princess Lieven's letters. A reference list of key events in her life is provided.
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Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520363957
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
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Author : Jennifer Davey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191089575
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mary, Countess of Derby, and the Politics of Victorian Britain written by Jennifer Davey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Mary Derby (1824-1900) occupied a pivotal position in Victorian politics, yet her activities have largely been overlooked or ignored. This volume places Mary back into the political position she occupied and offers the first dedicated account of her career. Based on extensive archival research, including hitherto neglected or lost sources, this study reconstructs the political worlds Mary inhabited. Her political landscape was dominated by the machinations and intrigues of high politics and diplomacy. As Jennifer Davey uncovers, Mary's political skill and acumen were highly valued by leading politicians of the day, including Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, and she played a significant role in many of the key events of the mid-Victorian era. This included the passing of the Second Reform Act, the formation of Disraeli's 1874 Government, the Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878, and Gladstone's 1880-1885 Government. By exploring how one woman was able to exercise influence at the heart of Victorian politics, this book considers what Mary's career tells us about the nature of political life in the mid-nineteenth century. It sheds new light on the connections between informal and formal political culture, incorporating the politics of the home, letter-writing, and social relations into a consideration of the politics of Parliament and Government. It provides a rich investigation of how a woman, with few legal or constitutional rights, was able to become a significant figure in mid-Victorian political life.
Author : Jane Robins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743255909
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Trial of Queen Caroline written by Jane Robins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-08-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the early nineteenth-century adultery trial of Queen Caroline, describing her loveless arranged marriage to George IV, their mutual separation and affairs with other people, and the public's riotous defense of Caroline.
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Rory Muir
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300214049
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852 written by Rory Muir and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preeminent Wellington biographer presents a fascinating reassessment of the Duke’s most famous victory and his political career after Waterloo. The Duke of Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from over. He commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s cabinet, and became prime minister in 1828. He later served as a senior minister in Robert Peel’s government and remained Commander-in-Chief of the Army for a decade until his death in 1852. In this richly detailed work, the second and concluding volume of Rory Muir’s definitive biography, the author offers a substantial reassessment of Wellington’s significance as a politician and a nuanced view of the private man behind the legendary hero. Muir presents new insights into Wellington’s determination to keep peace at home and abroad, achieved by maintaining good relations with the Continental powers, resisting radical agitation, and granting political equality to the Catholics in Ireland. Countering one-dimensional image of Wellington as a national hero, Muir paints a nuanced portrait of a man whose austere public demeanor belied his entertaining, gossipy, generous, and unpretentious private self.
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Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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Total Pages : 920 pages
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Total Pages : 810 pages
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Total Pages : 748 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book History written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronological coverage with articles on social, political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history. Book Review Section provides up-to-date critical analyses of up to 600 titles in each volume.
Author : Glenda Sluga
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317497031
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 written by Glenda Sluga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 explores the role of women as agents of diplomacy in the trans-Atlantic world since the early modern age. Despite increasing evidence of their involvement in political life across the centuries, the core historical narrative of international politics remains notably depleted of women. This collection challenges this perspective. Chapters cover a wide range of geographical contexts, including Europe, Russia, Britain and the United States, and trace the diversity of women’s activities and the significance of their contributions. Together these essays open up the field to include a broader interpretation of diplomatic work, such as the unofficial avenues of lobbying, negotiation and political representation that made women central diplomatic players in the salons, courts and boudoirs of Europe. Through a selection of case studies, the book throws into new perspective the operations of political power in local and national domains, bridging and at times reconceptualising the relationship of the private to the public. Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 is essential reading for all those interested in the history of diplomacy and the rise of international politics over the past five centuries.
Author : Glenda Sluga
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691264619
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Invention of International Order written by Glenda Sluga and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-01-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing the Concert of Europe. This new coalition planted the seeds for today's international order, wedding the idea of a durable peace to multilateralism, diplomacy, philanthropy, and rights, and making Europe its center. Glenda Sluga reveals how at the end of the Napoleonic wars, new conceptions of the politics between states were the work not only of European statesmen but also of politically ambitious aristocratic and bourgeois men and women who seized the moment at an extraordinary crossroads in history. In this panoramic book, Sluga reinvents the study of international politics, its limitations, and its potential. She offers multifaceted portraits of the leading statesmen of the age, such as Tsar Alexander, Count Metternich, and Viscount Castlereagh, showing how they operated in the context of social networks often presided over by influential women, even as they entrenched politics as a masculine endeavor. In this history, figures such as Madame de Staël and Countess Dorothea Lieven insist on shaping the political transformations underway, while bankers influence economic developments and their families agitate for Jewish rights. Monumental in scope, this groundbreaking book chronicles the European women and men who embraced the promise of a new kind of politics in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, and whose often paradoxical contributions to modern diplomacy and international politics still resonate today.
Author : Lothar Höbelt
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
ISBN 13 : 9783205785101
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (851 download)
Download or read book A Living Anachronism? written by Lothar Höbelt and published by Böhlau Verlag Wien. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Charmley, "Unravellling Silk": Princess Lieven, Metternich and Castlereagh David Brown: Palmerston and Austria Alan Sked: Austria and the "Galician massacres" of 1846 T. O. Otte: "Knavery or Folly"? The British "Official Mind" and the Habsburg Monarchy, 1856-1914 Helmut Rumpler: Die Dalmatienreise Kaiser Franz Josephs am Vorabend der Orientkrise 1875 Lothar Hobelt: The Bosnian Crisis Revisted: Austrian Liberals vs. Andrassy Isabel Pantenburg: Der menschliche Faktor in der Politik am Beispiel des Prinzen Eulenburg Holger Afflerbach: Das wilhelminische Kaiserreich zwischen Nationalstaat und Imperium Mark Cornwall: The Habsburg Elite and the Southern Slav Question
Author : Harford Montgomery Hyde
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Princess Lieven written by Harford Montgomery Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 352 pages
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