British Lives – serie
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4 produkter
Marlborough
Av J. R. Jones, Maurice Cowling
Häftad, 1993
586 kr
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John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, was one of the two greatest military commanders in British history and the first subject to achieve and exercise a dominating influence in European affairs. With Wellington and Nelson he is the nearest that Britain has had to a national hero, yet today his …
William Temple
Church, State and Society in Britain, 1880-1950
Av John Kent
Häftad, 1992
536 kr
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William Temple (1881-1944) was the outstanding British religious leader of the twentieth century. He believed that the 'modern state' was incomplete without a modern Christian church, which should set the moral and political tone of the community. His political and religious best seller, …
Disraeli
A Brief Life
Av Paul Smith
Inbunden, 1996
1469 kr
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'There was', Gladstone declared in 1895, 'no life which required so much to be written as that of Disraeli.' Benjamin Disraeli was born in London in 1804, the grandson of an Italian Jew. In this fresh account of his life, Paul Smith looks at Disraeli's unique character as a fuse of Jewishness and …
Pitt the Elder
Av Jeremy Black, Maurice Cowling m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
670 kr
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This book offers a readable yet scholarly account of the life of one of the greatest statesmen of empire, William Pitt the Elder, First Earl of Chatham (1708-78). Chatham is seen as a political outsider who rose to direct British policy in the Seven Years War, the crucial struggle that gave Canada …
