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Arthur Henderson (paperback)
(ISBN 0-7083-1085-0)
Chris Wrigley
pp xii210 1990 Paperback is OP but the hardback is in stock.
Arthur Henderson is a pivotal figure in the emergence of the British trade union and labour movement. Along perhaps with Herbert Morrison and James Callaghan, he has been the central and most representative personality in the British Labour party's evolution from being a party of protest to becoming a party of power. Professor Chris Wrigley, an outstanding authority on British labour developments, traces his career from trade-unionist to international statesman.
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Arthur Henderson (hardback)
(ISBN 0-7083-1083-4 )
Chris Wrigley
Arthur Henderson is a pivotal figure in the emergence of the British trade union and labour movement. Along perhaps with Herbert Morrison and James Callaghan, he has been the central and most representative personality in the British Labour party's evolution from being a party of protest to becoming a party of power. Professor Chris Wrigley, an outstanding authority on British labour developments, traces his career from trade-unionist to international statesman.
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Éamon De Valera
(ISBN 0-7083-0986-0 )
Owen Dudley Edwards
pp xvii163 1987 hardback
In this biography, Owen Dudley Edwards sheds a new often startling, always provocative light on Éamon de Valera, a founding spirit of modern Ireland. `Dev' was always seen to be a subtle and complex man, but Owen Dudley Edwards's highly original study uncovers new layers of complexity in the man and his outlook. The realities of de Valera's career, no less than the legends, are memorably explored in this book.
`Owen Dudley Edwards's entertaining portrait of Éamon de Valera . . . is at once the slightest and the most enjoyable of the seven works under discussion.' (Times Literary Supplement)
`This book is essential reading for students of modern Irish history.' (The Irish Post)
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Lord Palmerston (paperback)
(ISBN 0-7083-0973-9)
Muriel E. Chamberlain
pp xi136 1987
Palmerston is usually regarded as the John Bull embodiment of Victorian foreign policy but this biography does not take the conventional view. It is here suggested that Palmerston represented only one of several possible traditions but the one which seduced the British public and became the stereotype of Britain's role in the world. Yet Palmerston's ten years as Prime Minister from 1855 to 1865 is almost blank of reforms and may constitute a period of very important lost opportunities. While the book is an attempt to understand Palmerston, not to debunk him, it is far from the popular picture.
`Dr Chamberlain brings to her study of Lord Palmerston a mastery of the considerable bulk of historical literature which has been published - much of it recently - on Palmerston...The result is a clear, concise and readable account...It is a model of what a book of this kind should be...Markers should expect excellent answers to their examination questions from candidates who have read this book.' (Times Higher Education Supplement)
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Lord Palmerston (hardback)
(ISBN 0-7083-0978-X)
Muriel E. Chamberlain
pp xi136 1987
Palmerston is usually regarded as the John Bull embodiment of Victorian foreign policy but this biography does not take the conventional view. It is here suggested that Palmerston represented only one of several possible traditions but the one which seduced the British public and became the stereotype of Britain's role in the world. Yet Palmerston's ten years as Prime Minister from 1855 to 1865 is almost blank of reforms and may constitute a period of very important lost opportunities. While the book is an attempt to understand Palmerston, not to debunk him, it is far from the popular picture.
`Dr Chamberlain brings to her study of Lord Palmerston a mastery of the considerable bulk of historical literature which has been published - much of it recently - on Palmerston...The result is a clear, concise and readable account...It is a model of what a book of this kind should be...Markers should expect excellent answers to their examination questions from candidates who have read this book.' (Times Higher Education Supplement)
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Jawaharlal Nehru (paperback)
(ISBN 0-7083-1175-X )
Denis Judd
pp xii100 1993
The book is a concise, lucid and very readable biography of one of the great personalities of India's fight for freedom and of her recent history. Nehru's life encompassed the High Noon of Empire and of the British Raj, but also their collapse, and the creation of a Commonwealth of independent states. The son of a powerful and ambitious father, Jawaharlal Nehru played a major part in shaping Indian nationalism and modern India. Educated in Britain, rational yet warm-hearted, he espoused socialism but still maintained a close working relationship with the more traditionalist Mahatma Gandhi. Nehru moved easily between East and West, and his secular convictions might, with better luck, have averted the bloody partition of 1947.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (hardback)
(ISBN 0-7083-1171-7 )
Denis Judd
out of print
The book is a concise, lucid and very readable biography of one of the great personalities of India's fight for freedom and of her recent history. Nehru's life encompassed the High Noon of Empire and of the British Raj, but also their collapse, and the creation of a Commonwealth of independent states. The son of a powerful and ambitious father, Jawaharlal Nehru played a major part in shaping Indian nationalism and modern India. Educated in Britain, rational yet warm-hearted, he espoused socialism but still maintained a close working relationship with the more traditionalist Mahatma Gandhi. Nehru moved easily between East and West, and his secular convictions might, with better luck, have averted the bloody partition of 1947.
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William Ewart Gladstone (paperback)
(ISBN 0-7083-1045-1)
This is an all-round portrait of arguably the greatest prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer of the nineteenth century. It condenses into four chapters the exceptional political career and reading and thinking life of a statesman who lived through nearly all the nineteenth century, took part in all its political, economic, religious and literary controversies and decisively affected many of them. Something is said of Gladstone's literary career and contribution to Homeric scholarship as well as other non-political facets of this many-sided man. The author argues with no previous writer but attempts to build on their work and incorporate their conclusions, relating them to her own research. It owes most to the published Diaries and Colin Matthew's introduction to them.
`If you have students studying Gladstone for A level, or even for GCSE, then this is the book for them. It is straightforward, short and eminently readable...Agatha Ramm is to be congratulated on synthesizing the plethora of Gladstonian research into such a cocise volume.' (Teaching History)
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Price: £11.95
William Ewart Gladstone (hardback)
(ISBN 0-7083-1044-3)
This is an all-round portrait of arguably the greatest prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer of the nineteenth century. It condenses into four chapters the exceptional political career and reading and thinking life of a statesman who lived through nearly all the nineteenth century, took part in all its political, economic, religious and literary controversies and decisively affected many of them. Something is said of Gladstone's literary career and contribution to Homeric scholarship as well as other non-political facets of this many-sided man. The author argues with no previous writer but attempts to build on their work and incorporate their conclusions, relating them to her own research. It owes most to the published Diaries and Colin Matthew's introduction to them.
`If you have students studying Gladstone for A level, or even for GCSE, then this is the book for them. It is straightforward, short and eminently readable...Agatha Ramm is to be congratulated on synthesizing the plethora of Gladstonian research into such a cocise volume.' (Teaching History)
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Price: £29.99
