Gladstone: 1809-1898 / Edition 1

by H. C. G Matthew

Overview

H. C. G. Matthew's writings on Gladstone are generally acknowledged to have transformed understanding of the ‘Grand Old Man' of British Politics, and indeed his whole age. Appearing first as Introductions to his definitive edition of The Gladstone Diaries, they have been revised and made available in this volume, collected together in paperback for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198206965
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/27/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	706
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

H. C. G. Matthew is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He is the editor of the 14-volume collection of The Gladstone Diaries, and of the New Dictionary of National Biography.

Editorial Reviews

"Rarely can a single scholar have re-mapped a whole historical territory so grandly as H. C. G. Matthew has done in the case of Gladstone in particular and of Victorian politics and culture in general."—English Historical Review

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