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ISBN 10: 0199931593
ISBN 13: 978-0199931590
Author: John Bew 

Hardly is a figure more maligned in British history than Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh. One of the central figures of the Napoleonic Era and the man primarily responsible for fashioning Britain’s strategy at the Congress of Vienna, Castlereagh was widely respected by the great powers of Europe and America, yet despised by his countrymen and those he sought to serve. A shrewd diplomat, he is credited with being one of the first great practitioners of Realpolitik and its cold-eyed and calculating view of the relations between nations. Over the course of his career, he crushed an Irish rebellion and abolished the Irish parliament, imprisoned his former friends, created the largest British army in history, and redrew the map of Europe.

Today, Castlereagh is largely forgotten except as a tyrant who denied the freedoms won by the French and American revolutions. John Bew’s fascinating biography restores the statesman to his place in history, offering a nuanced picture of a shy, often inarticulate figure whose mind captured the complexity of the European Enlightenment unlike any other. Bew tells a gripping story, beginning with the Year of the French, when Napoleon sent troops in support of a revolution in Ireland, and traces Castlereagh’s evolution across the Napoleonic Wars, the diplomatic power struggles of 1814-15, and eventually the mental breakdown that ended his life. Skillfully balancing the dimensions of Castlereagh’s intellectual life with his Irish heritage, Bew’s definitive work brings Castleragh alive in all his complexity, variety, and depth.

Castlereagh A Life 1st Table of contents:

Part I –Enlightenment and Apostasy

1 – Ireland’s Robespierre

2 – New Light

3 – The Whig World

4 – English Head, Irish Heart

5 – Caesar in Ireland?

6 – The Reforming Giant and the Limits of Reason

7 – Insular Dignity and Abstracted Freedom

8 – Ragamuffins into Soldiers

9 – A Romping Piece of Flesh

10 – Pitt-ized with a Vengeance

11 – Voltaire’s Ideal Monster

12 – Political Delinquency

13 – The Wind and the Weather

14 – Pitt’s Henchman

15 – A Lavaterian Eye

16 – Erin’s Death

17 – Ireland Extinguished

18 – The Mists that Overhang the Union

Part II – The English Minister: Rise, Fall and Redemption, 1801–1814

1 – A Millstone about the Neck of Britain

2 – A Clog Hung About a Dog’s Neck

3 – The Protégé

4 – The Return to War

5 – England’s Trouble, Ireland’s Opportunity

6 – Winding the Family Clock

7 – Pitt’s Heir?

8 – Pitt’s Shadow

9 – Two Irishmen in London

10 – The Continental Foothold

11 – Britannia Sickens

12 – Unwilling to Give Up a Hero

13 – The New Front

14 – Weak Friends and Perfidious Enemies

15 – Lord Castaway

16 – London Grows Thin

17 – Private Honour

18 – Independent Patriot

19 – The Knight of Old Returns

20 – In Search of the Sixth Coalition

21 – One Cause or Nothing

22 – On the Rhine

23 – Is it Peace?

24 – Paris at Last

Part III – First Among Equals

1 – Peace in Paris

2 – The Gilded Age

3 – Pleasure Bent in Vienna

4 – The Congress

5 – John Bull Fights Best, When He is Not Tied

6 – Bringing Back the World to Peaceful Habits

7 – In Defence of the Allies

8 – Back to the Bustle

9 – Enough to Destroy the Health of Hercules

10 – An Entire Fearlessness

11 – Like Wretches in a Slave-Ship

12 – Meeting Murder

13 – With Pistols in His Breeches

14 – John Bull’s Compass

15 – Swellfoot the Tyrant

16 – All We Ask of Our Allies

17 – A Mixture of Warp and Woof

18 – Mont Blanc Goes On

19 – The Malaprop Cicero

20 – The Cup Overflows

21 – So He Has Cut His Throat

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