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Regency England: The Age of Lord Liverpool
This clear introduction to British history and politics at the emergence of the 'modern' period sheds new light on the early years of the nineteenth century, a period of revolution, reaction and reform.
88 pages, Paperback
First published March 7, 1996
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June 20, 2023
Useful and concise as a reference!
April 5, 2017
A five-star rating by the author of the book should obviously treated with scepticism. Nevertheless, I believe that this represents an ideal introduction to Lord Liverpool’s premiership. It is certainly based on a love of that subject, dating from my own schooldays, whilst my appreciation of the period was greatly enhanced in the course of teaching it to several generations of students. The following review, originally published in ‘History. The Journal of the Historical Association’ by Emma Vincent Macleod, Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling, strikes me as very fair:
“John Plowright's contribution to Routledge's series of Lancaster pamphlets for sixth-form and junior undergraduate students provides a concise and sympathetic reassessment of Lord Liverpool and his government. He convincingly presents Liverpool as a skilful politician who negotiated substantial difficulties and constraints with considerable success. Plowright further argues that there was no great discontinuity between the 1812-21 and 1821-7 phases of the premiership. Men and circumstances were what changed, rather than government policies, and it is misleading to suggest that the period can be divided easily into years of harsh government repression followed by years of `liberal' Toryism. The book contains a chronological table and a useful analysis of the literature both in the course of the text and in a formal selective bibliographical note; and it is written so clearly that it is an excellent model for students - except in one respect. My only criticism is that it provides no references for its apt and often pithy quotations, which is a pity when its guide to the historiography is otherwise one of its strengths.”
“John Plowright's contribution to Routledge's series of Lancaster pamphlets for sixth-form and junior undergraduate students provides a concise and sympathetic reassessment of Lord Liverpool and his government. He convincingly presents Liverpool as a skilful politician who negotiated substantial difficulties and constraints with considerable success. Plowright further argues that there was no great discontinuity between the 1812-21 and 1821-7 phases of the premiership. Men and circumstances were what changed, rather than government policies, and it is misleading to suggest that the period can be divided easily into years of harsh government repression followed by years of `liberal' Toryism. The book contains a chronological table and a useful analysis of the literature both in the course of the text and in a formal selective bibliographical note; and it is written so clearly that it is an excellent model for students - except in one respect. My only criticism is that it provides no references for its apt and often pithy quotations, which is a pity when its guide to the historiography is otherwise one of its strengths.”
March 14, 2008
Intensely boring, but full of technical information on Lord Liverpool's reign as Prime Minister in case you need to look things up on that subject.
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