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  • Politics in the Age of Peel

    A Study in the Technique of Parliamentary Representation, 1830–1850

    by Norman Gash ...
    Politics in the Age of Peel, first published in 1953, is concerned with the ordinary working world of politicians in England during the stormy period between 1830 and 1850: the age of the railway, the Chartists, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Irish famine.Even in the wake of the Great Reform Act of 1832 many corrupt aspects of the old unreformed system of democratic election survived; and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Lord Liverpool

    The Life and Political Career of Robert Banks Jenkinson, Second Earl of Liverpool, 1770-1828

    by Norman Gash ...
    'He gave his name to the longest, and one of the most important, British administrations of the nineteenth century. Yet the man himself has remained a shadowy figure.' Norman Gash, from the introductionPrime Minister at the time of the battle of Waterloo, Robert Banks Jenkinson, the 2nd Earl of Liverpool, was in power from 1812 to 1827. But despite his seeing off the threat of Napoleon, and being ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Sir Robert Peel

    The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830

    by Norman Gash ...
    Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel - Mr Secretary Peel (1961) and Sir Robert Peel (1972) - is the standard work on the great statesman, and is widely considered one of the great biographies of nineteenth-century prime ministers. Faber Finds is delighted to return both to print.In this second volume, Gash focuses on the years between 1830 and 1850, the height of Peel's ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Reaction and Reconstruction in English Politics, 1832–1852

    by Norman Gash ...
    'It is a melancholy thought that as soon as reforms are put into practice, disillusionment enters the political scene...'Norman Gash's Ford Lectures, originally delivered at Oxford in 1964, address an era of reform that followed the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828, Catholic Emancipation in 1829, and the Reform Act of 1832. The history of this period has often focused on the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Mr Secretary Peel

    The Life of Sir Robert Peel to 1830

    by Norman Gash ...
    Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel - Mr Secretary Peel (1961) and Sir Robert Peel (1972) - is the standard work on the great statesman, and is widely considered one of the great biographies of 19th-century prime ministers. Faber Finds is delighted to return both to print, beginning with Mr Secretary Peel.As Gash puts it memorably, 'Peel, born in 1788 in the world of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    A Guide for Family & Local Historians

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  • Crisis & Decline

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