Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century

The author profiles ten prominent English figures of the nineteenth century, mainly political and military leaders, using concise biographies to illustrate major national developments, reforms, and conflicts. An opening chapter offers a panoramic overview of the century's course, and one industrial engineer is included to demonstrate technological and economic change. Each chapter connects the life and actions of its subject with the public problems they addressed, and appended library notes plus selections from speeches and correspondence provide primary material for readers wishing to pursue further study.