The Earl of Elgin - Couverture souple

Wrong, George M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498045421 ISBN 13 : 9781498045421

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Life of Lord Elgin, who, as Dean Stanley said, witnessed the successful accommodation of a more varied series of novel and entangled situations than any other statesman of his time. He was the first Governor-G eneral of Canada to accept fully the principle of colonial self-government; under him, too, Canadian differential duties in favour of Great Britain were repealed, and a reciprocity treaty was concluded with the United States. He was the first British Ambassador to make his way to the Chinese capital, there to ratify a treaty; as well as the first to conclude a commercial treaty with Japan. During the years of his active career he spent but little time in Britain, and the records of his life hardly touch either social or political questions at home. For this reason his biography is almost exclusively a chapter of British political history in scenes beyond the British I sles.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498045421
• ISBN 13: 9781498045421
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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