TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donoghue,Mark
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Faithful Victorian: William Thomas Thornton, 1813-1880 
SN  - 9781137587732 (ebook:PDF)
U1  - 941 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint)
KW  - Great Britain-History
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Social history
KW  - Imperialism
N1  - .One Beginnings -- .Two "Your Plea will not be in Vain" -- .Three "The Best, Truest, Noblest of Friends" -- .Four Rhymes and Verses -- .Five An Awkward Equilibrium -- .Six Servant of the Raj -- .Seven Burning Words -- .Eight Final Works -- .Epilogue
N2  - This book weaves William Thomas Thornton's life story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was to expose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics and religion. Thornton was a poet, an intrepid traveler, a biographer, an essayist, an imperial mandarin, and a dutiful family man. Thornton joined the East India Company in the mid-1830s, rising to become Secretary of the India Office's Department of Public Works. This study uses Thornton's letters and other recently-discovered primary material to provide a fascinating account that returns his compelling life to the center of nineteenth-century British intellectual thought
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58773-2
ER  -