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Auteur(s) : Bew, John (19..-.... ; historien)
Titre(s) : Castlereagh [Texte imprimé] : enlightenment, war and tyranny / John Bew
Publication : London : Quercus, 2011
Description matérielle : xxx, 722 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [685]-705) and index
No British statesman of the nineteenth century reached the same level of international
fame as Lord Castlereagh, or won as much respect from the great powers of Europe or
America. Yet no British statesman has been so maligned by his contemporaries or hated
by the public. His career took him from the brutal suppression of a bloody rebellion
in Ireland to the splendour of Vienna and Paris. He imprisoned his former friends,
abolished the Irish parliament, created the biggest British army in history, and redrew
the map of Europe. At a time when the West turns from idealism to realism in its foreign
policy, Castlereagh's reputation is being revived. Yet neither his detractors nor
his defenders have truly understood this shy, inarticulate but sometimes passionate
man. In this book, John Bew tells the story of Castlereagh from the French Revolution
through the Irish rebellion, the Napoleonic Wars, the diplomatic power struggles of
1814-5 and the mental breakdown that ended his life. John Bew paints a magisterial
portrait not only of his subject but the tumultuous times in which he acted. Rather
than the tyrant of legend, Castlereagh was a man whose mind captured the complexity
of the European Enlightenment as much as any other. His mind was conservative and
enlightened at the same time - and no less the one for being the other.-- Publisher
Sujet(s) : Castlereagh, Robert Stewart (1769-1822 ; vicomte)
Politique et gouvernement -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1789-1820
Grande-Bretagne -- 1789-1820
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780857381866 (hbk.). - ISBN 0857381865 (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb425667696
Notice n° :
FRBNF42566769
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