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Article: Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Church and State
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- September 22, 2002
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By Michael Bentley. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 334 pp. np.
The years 1999-2001 have been for the historical recognition of Robert Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, truly anni mirabiles. Michael Bentley's Lord Salisbury's World is the third and most impressive of three massive and noteworthy studies of Queen Victoria's last prime minister. The first two works, both published in 1999, were biographical: Andrew Roberts' Salisbury: Victorian Titan and David Steele's more scholarly Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography. Bentley's study is an extremely successful attempt to analyze what he calls the "Conservative Environments" around and ...