Three English Statesmen (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Course of Lectures on the Political History of England

by Goldwin Smith

Overview

Through this elegant, acerbic trio of essays—on seventeenth-century parliamentarian John Pym, Oliver Cromwell, and William Pitt the Elder—the influential historian Goldwin Smith takes digs at the politicians and parties of the 1860s. Issues include Ireland, martial law, imperialism, Anglo-American relations, suffrage, the Anglican Church, aristocracy, revolution, and reaction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411453104
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	05/10/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	306
File size:	246 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Goldwin Smith (1823-1910) was a British born historian and journalist. Educated at Eton College and Oxford, he was appointed the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1858. He moved to the United States in 1868 and took up a professorship at Cornell University; in 1871 he moved to Toronto.