James R. Thursfield

Peel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Police are still known in Britain as bobbies and in Ireland as Peelers, named after the man who established them: Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850). The extraordinary life and career of the Prime Minister who built the British Conservative Party is vividly captured by one of England's most distinguished historians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411446489
• Artikelnr.: 50389251

Autorenporträt

Sir James Richard Thursfield (1840-1923), a British naval historian, was the first editor of the Times Literary Supplement. His journalistic writings include The Navy and the Nation (1897), Nelson and Other Naval Studies (1909), and Naval Warfare (1913). He held a fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford from 1864-1881 and was knighted in 1920.