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Lord Dufferin, Ireland and the British Empire, c. 1820-1900 - Rule by the Best? (Paperback)
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Lord Dufferin, Ireland and the British Empire, c. 1820-1900 - Rule by the Best? (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple
Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
(1826-1902). Dufferin was a landowner in Ulster, an urbane
diplomat, literary sensation, courtier, politician, colonial
governor, collector, son, husband and father. The book draws on
episodes from Dufferin's career to link the landowning and
aristocratic culture he was born into with his experience of
governing across the British Empire, in Canada, Egypt, Syria and
India. This book argues that there was a defined conception of
aristocratic governance and purpose that infused the political and
imperial world, and was based on two elements: the inheritance and
management of a landed estate, and a well-defined sense of 'rule by
the best'. It identifies a particular kind of atmosphere of empire
and aristocracy, one that was riven with tensions and angst, as
those who saw themselves as the hereditary leaders of Britain and
Ireland were challenged by a rising democracy and, in Ireland, by a
powerful new definition of what Irishness was. It offers a new
perspective on both empire and aristocracy in the nineteenth
century, and will appeal to a broad scholarly audience and the
wider public.
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