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Lord Salisbury's world: conservative environments in late-Victorian Britain

By Michael Bentley

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
052144506X, 9780521445061, 9780511017889
LCC
DA564.S2 B46 2001
Open Library ID
OL6796794M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1546251 bytes)
Series
British Lives S.
Pages
344\344
Topic
History
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

Lord Salisbury (1830–1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This important study moves away from conventional biography and presents an original portrait of the mental world inhabited by late Victorian Conservatives at the time when their world-view was coming under severe strain. At the centre of the picture is the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, but Lord Salisbury's World does not simply tell the story of his life and politics. Instead, it asks sensitive questions about how the political, intellectual and religious environments of the late Victorian period seemed to one of its sharpest intellects, and it situates Salisbury and his immediate entourage in a wide landscape of relationships, perceptions and problems. Professor Bentley takes the reader into Conservative assumptions about time and space, property and society, religion and the state, and the past and the future - the very language in which they expressed themselves.

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