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  • - Church, State and Society in Britain, 1880-1950
    af John Kent
    415,95 kr.

    William Temple (1881-1944) was the outstanding British religious leader of the twentieth century. He believed that the 'modern state' was incomplete without a modern Christian church, which should set the moral and political tone of the community. This is a study of Temple's public life, including his attempts to unite the world's Protestant churches.

  • af J. R. Jones
    353,95 kr.

    John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, was one of the two greatest military commanders in British history and the first subject to achieve and exercise a dominating influence in European affairs. With Wellington and Nelson he is the nearest that Britain has had to a national hero, yet today his reputation has faded.

  • - A Brief Life
    af Paul Smith
    380,95 - 976,95 kr.

    This concise study of Disraeli, aimed at the general reader as much as at the student, stands in contrast to the many full-length studies which continue to appear. It focuses on the substantial reassessment of Disraeli's career and personality which is currently taking place.

  • af Jeremy (University of Durham) Black
    518,95 kr.

    This book offers a readable yet scholarly account of the life of one of the greatest statesmen of empire, William Pitt the Elder, First Earl of Chatham (1708-78). Chatham is seen as a political outsider who rose to direct British policy in the Seven Years War, the crucial struggle that gave Canada to Britain.