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

Author: Michael Bentley
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This new 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 third Marquis of Salisbury, but Lord Salisbury's World does not simply tell the story  Read more...
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Named Person: Robert Cecil Salisbury, Marquess of; Robert Cecil of (1830-1903) Salisbury
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Bentley
ISBN: 052144506X 9780521445061
OCLC Number: 45620856
Description: viii, 334 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Michael Bentley.
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"Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This new 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 third Marquis 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." "Its starting points are two: that politics is a situational activity, and that situations reside in the minds of the beholders. For that reason Professor Bentley draws the reader into Conservative assumptions about time and space, property and society, religion and the state, the past and the future - the very language in which they expressed themselves. His book will therefore be required reading for all those interested in British political ideas."--Jacket.

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