Laurence Fenton: 2 books
Palmerston and the Times
Foreign Policy, the Press and Public Opinion in Mid-Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
England in the Age of Palmerston had two players of colossal influence on the world stage: Lord Palmerston himself - the dominant figure in foreign affairs in the mid-nineteenth century - and The Times - the first global newspaper, read avidly by statesmen around the world. Palmerston was also one...
by Laurence Fenton
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
‘When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,’ President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, ‘we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist, forged an unlikely friendship right here...