Preface
1: Derby's First Premiership: 1852
2: 'Killing with Kindness': 1853-1855
3: War and Peace: 1855-1858
4: Derby's Second Premiership: 1858-1859
5: Watching and Waiting: 1859-1866
6: Derby's Third Premiership: 1866-1868
7: Recession and Reputation: 1868-1869
Bibliography
Index
Angus Hawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member
of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, Director of
International Programmes in Oxford University's Department for
Continuing Education, and Fellow and Bursar of Kellogg College,
Oxford. He has published numerous books on Victorian politics,
including Parliament, Party and the Art of Politics in Britain,
1855-1859 and British Party Politics, 1852-1886 and has won a
number of prizes
including the Gladstone Memorial Prize and the McCann Award.
`Magisterial biography.'
Literary Review.
`The most significant book on Victorian politics in half a
century.
'
Professor John Charmley, University of East Anglia
`This, the first full-length biography of Derby to be written with
access to the archives, will be the only one needed this century...
The next volume is eagerly awaited.
'
Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Times
`The first volume leaves him on the brink of his first ministry;
the second volume is eagerly awaited...fine work'
A. W. Purdue, THES
`Hopefully readers will not have to wait long for the remainder of
this impressive work. Meantime, the book's publishers should be
congratulated on having produced a handsome, illustrated volume, at
a fairly reasonable price.'
Terry Jenkins, BBC History Magazine
`Hawkins's...achievement [is] in bringing the mind of a reading
public back to this curious and significant statesman.'
Michael Bentley, TLS
`OUP should be congratulated for publishing this book in two
volumes...well-researched, well-written book.'
Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Times
`This is real history. Unlike so many political biographers,
Hawkins has really mastered the archives. There is much in this
book that is new, much that will permanently change interpretations
of the period. It is about real politicians, not caricatures or
faceless abstractions. Those who already have some acquaintance
with the early years of the nineteenth century will find great
pleasure in reading this book'
Leslie Mitchell, Literary Review
`It has clearly taken years of labour and will be the definitive
work on its subject... After this very full, well-exectuted and
revealing treatment there will not need to be another book about
the 14th earl of Derby for a long time.'
J. R. Parry, Parliamentary History
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