The Earl of Elgin (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Earl of Elgin Recent events give, perhaps, a certain timelines to the 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-General 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the principle of colonial self-government; under him, too, Canadian differential duties in favour of Great Britain were repealed, and a reciprocity treaty was concluded with the United States.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 Isles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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