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Henry Goulburn, 1784-1856 : A Political Biography.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (457 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773565784
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Henry Goulburn, 1784-1856DDC classification:
  • 941/.073/092
LOC classification:
  • DA565.G58 J45 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- 1 A Promising Young Man -- 2 Slave Owner -- 3 War and Peace -- 4 Slavery and Empire -- 5 A Fit and Able Man -- 6 Chief Secretary -- 7 Chancellor of the Exchequer -- 8 The Great Reform Bill -- 9 The Conservative Revival -- 10 Return to Power -- 11 Peel's Chancellor -- 12 The Disruption of the Conservative Party -- 13 Peelite -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Brian Jenkins's impressive biography documents Henry Goulburn's long and successful political career during the first half of the nineteenth century. Rescuing Goulburn from unmerited obscurity, Jenkins reveals that he was at the centre of far-reaching political and economic developments during a turbulent period of British history.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- 1 A Promising Young Man -- 2 Slave Owner -- 3 War and Peace -- 4 Slavery and Empire -- 5 A Fit and Able Man -- 6 Chief Secretary -- 7 Chancellor of the Exchequer -- 8 The Great Reform Bill -- 9 The Conservative Revival -- 10 Return to Power -- 11 Peel's Chancellor -- 12 The Disruption of the Conservative Party -- 13 Peelite -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Brian Jenkins's impressive biography documents Henry Goulburn's long and successful political career during the first half of the nineteenth century. Rescuing Goulburn from unmerited obscurity, Jenkins reveals that he was at the centre of far-reaching political and economic developments during a turbulent period of British history.

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