Sir Robert Peel
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Sir Robert Peel

The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830

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Sir Robert Peel

The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830

About this book

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 political career, which included his two terms as prime minister, the controversial repeal of the Corn Laws, and his reform of the Conservative Party.

'In ... his masterly biography, covering Peel's career from the Reform Crisis to his untimely death in 1850, Professor Gash shows himself not merely an admirer but an emulator - brilliant intellect, master of detail, man of conservative but humane conscience.' Harold Perkin, Guardian

'Norman Gash's Sir Robert Peel shows how high and austere academic writing about a major figure is compatible with an outstanding general biography.' Roy Jenkins, Observer

'In Mr Secretary Peel, the first volume of this biography, he provided a rich and perceptive portrait of a statesman in the making. Now at last he has completed one of the great biographies of our time.' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph

'Sir Robert Peel by Norman Gash ranks with the great political biographies of the past, a classic work in both scholarship and presentation.' A. J. P. Taylor, New Statesman

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780571279623
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. FOREWORD
  6. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
  7. Family Tree
  8. PRELUDE
  9. CHAPTER 1 : THE CRISIS OF REFORM
  10. CHAPTER 2 : CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION
  11. CHAPTER 3 : THE HUNDRED DAYS
  12. CHAPTER 4 : PEERS AND COMMONERS
  13. CHAPTER 5 : SQUIRE OF DRAYTON
  14. CHAPTER 6 : MONARCH AND MINISTERS
  15. CHAPTER 7 : THE YEAR OF VICTORY
  16. CHAPTER 8 : THE NEW MINISTRY
  17. CHAPTER 9 : THE GREAT BUDGET
  18. CHAPTER 10 : DISTRESS AND DISORDER
  19. CHAPTER 11 : MIDPASSAGE
  20. CHAPTER 12 : THE SERBONIAN BOG
  21. CHAPTER 13 : DIFFICULTIES AND DISSENSIONS
  22. CHAPTER 14 : THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EMPIRE
  23. CHAPTER 15 : THE AUTUMN OF CRISIS
  24. CHAPTER 16 : THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS
  25. CHAPTER 17 : PEELITES, WHIGS AND PROTECTIONISTS
  26. CHAPTER 18 : PEEL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
  27. EPILOGUE
  28. SOME MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS OF SIR ROBERT PEEL
  29. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  30. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO NEW EDITION
  31. INDEX
  32. About the Author
  33. Copyright