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Palmerston and the Times: Foreign Policy, the Press and Public Opinion in Mid-Victorian Britain

By Laurence Fenton

Book information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2012
ISBN
9780857723550, 9781780760742, 9780857736512
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
540 kB (552673 bytes)
Series
Library of Victorian Studies
Pages
223\0
Topic
History
Time added
2022-08-15 11:16:56

Description

Victorian Britain had two players of colossal influence on the world stage: Lord Palmerston - the dominant figure in foreign affairs in the mid-nineteenth century - and The Times - the first global newspaper, read avidly by statesmen around the world. Palmerston was also one of the first real media-manipulating politicians of the modern age, forging close links with a number of publications to create the so-called ""Palmerston press."" His relationship with The Times, however, was turbulent and became a prolonged and bitter rivalry. For The Times, Palmerston was no more than ""a flippant dandy;"" to Palmerston, The Times was a treacherous ""liar."" In this book, Laurence Fenton explores the highly-charged rivalry between these two titans of the mid-Victorian era, revealing the personal and political differences at the heart of an antagonism that stretched over the course of three decades.

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