Lord Salisbury’s world: conservative environments in late-Victorian Britain

Michael Bentley052144506X, 9780521445061, 9780511017889

Lord Salisbury (1830–1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This important study moves away from conventional biography and presents an original portrait of the mental world inhabited by late Victorian Conservatives at the time when their world-view was coming under severe strain. At the centre of the picture is the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, but Lord Salisbury’s World does not simply tell the story of his life and politics. Instead, it asks sensitive questions about how the political, intellectual and religious environments of the late Victorian period seemed to one of its sharpest intellects, and it situates Salisbury and his immediate entourage in a wide landscape of relationships, perceptions and problems. Professor Bentley takes the reader into Conservative assumptions about time and space, property and society, religion and the state, and the past and the future – the very language in which they expressed themselves.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Contents……Page 7
Acknowledgements……Page 8
NOTE ON THE TEXT……Page 9
Abbreviations……Page 10
INTRODUCTION Situations vacant……Page 11
FAMILY TIME……Page 18
PARTY TIME……Page 27
HISTORICAL TIME……Page 36
‘ENGLAND’……Page 43
SCOTLAND……Page 55
IRELAND……Page 65
THEM AND US……Page 75
INEQUALITIES……Page 82
BEYOND THE PALE……Page 94
CONTRACT……Page 104
REALTY VERSUS REALITY……Page 111
ALIENATING IRELAND……Page 119
SALISBURY AND THE CLERISY……Page 135
DEMOCRACY, SOCIALISM, REVOLUTION……Page 153
THE CONSERVATIVE CONSTITUTION……Page 169
INTERFERENCE AND ITS LIMITS……Page 185
CHAPTER 7 The church……Page 198
ESTABLISHMENT AND DISSENT……Page 199
DISSENT AND EDUCATION……Page 215
CHAPTER 8 The empire……Page 230
THE WHITE MAN AND HIS BURDENS……Page 231
THE JEWEL AND ITS SETTING……Page 242
THE DARK CONTINENT……Page 254
CHAPTER 9 The party……Page 261
THE END(S) OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY: 1867……Page 262
RUSSIANS AND TURKS: 1874–1881……Page 274
TOWARDS LEADERSHIP: 1881–1887……Page 285
MANAGEMENT: 1887–1898……Page 296
LANGUAGES……Page 305
MEMORIES……Page 315
POSTERITIES……Page 323
ARCHIVAL SOURCES……Page 332
OTHER PRIMARY SOURCES……Page 334
FURTHER READING……Page 335
Index……Page 337