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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973537503321

Autore

Bentley Michael <1948->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11205-2

0-511-11609-8

0-511-30358-0

1-280-15179-X

0-511-49568-4

0-511-05275-8

0-511-15394-5

0-521-44956-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 334 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

941.081

Soggetti

Conservatism - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION Situations vacant; CHAPTER 1 Time; CHAPTER 2 Space; CHAPTER 3 Society; CHAPTER 4 Property; CHAPTER 5 Thought; CHAPTER 6 The state; CHAPTER 7 The church; CHAPTER 8 The empire; CHAPTER 9 The party; CHAPTER 10 The legacy; Sources and further reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Lord Salisbury (1830–1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This important 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 3rd Marquess 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. Professor Bentley takes the reader into Conservative assumptions about time and space, property and society, religion and the state, and the past and the future - the very language in which they expressed themselves.