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Alex Lord's British Columbia

Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915-36

By: Alexander Russell Lord

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Alex Lord's British Columbia

Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915-36

By: Alexander Russell Lord

Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural BC schools shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely out of the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory, utilizing unreliable transportation, and enduring climatic extremes, Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities and their faith in the humanizing effects of tiny assisted schools. En route, he performed in resolute yet imaginative fashion the supervisory functions of a top government educator, developing an educational philosophy of his own based on an understanding of the provincial geography, a reverence for citizenship, and a work ethic tuned to challenge and accomplishment. Although not completed, these memoires invite the reader to experience the British Columbia that Alex Lord knew. Through his words, we endure the difficulties of travel in this mountainous province. We meet many of the unusual characters who inhabited this last frontier and learn of their hopes, fears, joys, sorrows, and eccentricities. More particularly, we are reminded of the historical significance of the one-room rural school and its role as an indispensable instrument of community cohesion. John Calam has organized the memoirs according to the regions through which Lord travelled. He has included in his introduction a biography of Alex Lord, a brief description of the British Columbia he knew, a sketch of its public education system, and an assessment of the place Lord’s writing now occupies among other works on education and society.

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UBC Press

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0774803819

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9780774803816

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

Benjamin Disraeli was perhaps the most colourful Prime Minister in British history. This seventh volume of the highly acclaimed Benjamin Disraeli Letters edition shows also that he was a dedicated, resourceful, and farsighted statesman. It contains 670 letters written between 1857 and 1859. They address friends, family, political colleagues, and, not least, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. During this period, Disraeli shepherded a fragile Conservative government through the Indian Mutiny, the Second Opium War with China, the Orsini bomb plot, and the Franco-Austrian-Piedmontese War, only to fail at home over parliamentary reform. Day-by-day politics and behind-the-scenes strategy dominate, while lighter-hearted letters to friends and family reveal the private Disraeli's charm and wit. With an appendix of 115 newly found letters dating from 1825, as well as information on 219 unfound letters, full annotations to each letter, an exhaustive name-and-subject index and a comprehensive introduction, this volume will be a vital resource for new understanding of this enigmatic statesman.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802087280

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9780802087287

The Invasion of the Crimea: Vol. VII [Sixth Edition]

Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan

By: Alexander W. Kinglake

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The Invasion of the Crimea: Vol. VII [Sixth Edition]

Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan

By: Alexander W. Kinglake

This is the sixth edition of the seventh volume in a series of nine that was originally published in 1877, and which together provide a thoroughly comprehensive operational history of the Crimean War to June 1855, including all the early battles and the first attack on the Redan. Alexander William Kinglake (1809-1891) visited the Crimea in 1854 as a civilian and was present at the battle of the Alma (20 Sep 1854). The British Commander-in-Charge, Lord Raglan, suggested to Kinglake that he write a history of the Crimean War and made available all his private papers. The result is this monumental and elaborate piece of work, which tells the story of the war from its very origins right through to the death of Raglan on 28 June 1855, at which point the conflict still had another eight months to run until its conclusion at the Treaty of Paris on 28 February 1856... This SEVENTH volume describes in detail THE WINTER TROUBLES of 1854/1855. Richly illustrated throughout with useful maps and diagrams.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787203492

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9781787203495

Club Government

How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs

By: Seth Alexander Thevoz

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Club Government

How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs

By: Seth Alexander Thevoz

The book phenomenon of `Club Government' in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the functions of government were alleged to have taken place behind closed doors, in the secretive clubs of London's St. James's district, has not been adequately historicized. Despite `Club Government' being referenced in most major political histories of the period, it is a topic which has never before enjoyed a full-length study. Making use of previously-sealed club archives, and adopting a broad range of analytical techniques, this work of political history, social history, sociology and quantitative approaches to history seeks to deepen our understanding of the distinctive and novel ways in which British political culture evolved in this period. The book concludes that historians have hugely underestimated the extent of club influence on `high politics' in Westminster, and though the reputation of clubs for intervening in elections was exaggerated, the culture and secrecy involved in gentleman's clubs had a huge impact on Britain and the British Empire.

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338

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786733722

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9781786733726

Cambridge in the 1830s

The Letters of Alexander Chisholm Gooden, 1831-1841

By: Alexander Chisholm Gooden,Cambridge University Library

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The Letters of Alexander Chisholm Gooden, 1831-1841

By: Alexander Chisholm Gooden,Cambridge University Library

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Boydell Press

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1843830108

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9781843830108

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

The latest volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series contains or describes 952 letters (778 perviously unpublished) written by Disraeli between 1852 and 1856.

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University of Toronto Press

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080204137X

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Alex Lord's British Columbia

Alex Lord's British Columbia

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

The Invasion of the Crimea: Vol. VII [Sixth Edition]

The Invasion of the Crimea: Vol. VII [Sixth Edition]

Club Government

Club Government

Cambridge in the 1830s

Cambridge in the 1830s

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

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