Gladstone: 1865-1898


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William Ewart Gladstone was perhaps the greatest colossus of the Victorian Age. Along with his formidable rival, Benjamin Disraeli, he dominated Britain's political scene from the moment of his appointment as chancellor of the exchequer in Aberdeen's famo




Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon


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This volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.







The Gladstone Colony


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P.77; Reference to activities of the native police; p.89; Contact with native woman; p.185; Use of throwing sticks and slings for throwing stones.




The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History


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Draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring together 36 leading scholars writing about 400 years of modern Irish history




The Battle of Dorking


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Gladstone Centenary Essays


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In 1998 an international conference brought Gladstone scholars together to mark the centenary of his death, and some of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume. They cover topics such as parliamentary reform and free trade.




Comparative Constitutional Design


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Assesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issues.







The Doolittle Family in America


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