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Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) is remembered for three things: his creation of the Metropolitan Police, his principal role in the repeal of the Corn Laws and his status as a founder of the modern Conservative Party. This is quite sufficient to make him the key statesman of the early Victorian period, but there were many other aspects of his personality and politics which make the study of his career uniquely useful. In many ways, he can be seen as the archetypal link figure between the pre-Reform and post-Reform political worlds--embodying a strange mixture of reactionary Toryism and vigorous progressivism. This first full-length study of Peel for more than twenty years, based on the latest research, will be immensely useful for anyone wishing to understand this formative period in British politics.
Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) is remembered for three things: his creation of the Metropolitan Police, his principal role in the repeal of the Corn Laws and his status as a founder of the modern Conservative Party. This is quite sufficient to make him the key statesman of the early Victorian period, but there were many other aspects of his personality and politics which make the study of his career uniquely useful. In many ways, he can be seen as the archetypal link figure between the pre-Reform and post-Reform political worlds--embodying a strange mixture of reactionary Toryism and vigorous progressivism. This first full-length study of Peel for more than twenty years, based on the latest research, will be immensely useful for anyone wishing to understand this formative period in British politics.
Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) is remembered for three things: his creation of the Metropolitan Police, his principal role in the repeal of the Corn Laws and his status as a founder of the modern Conservative Party. This is quite sufficient to make him the key statesman of the early Victorian period, but there were many other aspects of his personality and politics which make the study of his career uniquely useful. In many ways, he can be seen as the archetypal link figure between the pre-Reform and post-Reform political worlds--embodying a strange mixture of reactionary Toryism and vigorous progressivism. This first full-length study of Peel for more than twenty years, based on the latest research, will be immensely useful for anyone wishing to understand this formative period in British politics.
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T. A. Jenkins is Research Officer at the History of Parliament Trust.
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...a life story told here with remarkable clarity as well as brevity. Victorian Studies
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- ISBN 10 0312216394
- ISBN 13 9780312216399
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages179
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