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Bew (war studies, King’s College London) has written a complex text reevaluating Anglo-Irish politician Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, later Lord Londonderry. An architect of the 1801 Act of Union that formally bound England and Ireland, Castlereagh was a leading figure in European diplomacy until his death in 1822. Bew has plenty of interesting ideas that might have given his narrative form; unfortunately, most of these are lost ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More