Gilmour, David.

Curzon: imperial statesman/ David Gilmour. - 1st American ed. - New York: Straus and Giroux, 2003. - xv, 684 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Ancestral Silence
2. 'Passionate Resolves'; Eton, 1872-1878
3. 'Laying the Foundations': Oxford, 1878—1885
4. Twin Passions: 'Women and Work', 1882—1885
5. The Journey to Westminster, 1885- 1887
6. 'Travel with a Purpose', 1887—1890
7. 'The Coming Man', 1890-1895
8. Hearts and Souls
9. Number Two at the FO
ID. Sailing to Bombay
11. The Governance of India
12. 'Let India Be My Judge'
15. Farmers and Colleagues: The Problem of the Princes
14. Guarding the Frontiers
15. The Viceroy's Routine
16. 1902: Proconsular Zenith
17. Fatal Appointments, 1902-1903
18. The Gulf, Bengal and Tibet
19. 'An Infinitude of Trouble': England, 1904
20. Kitchener's Conspiracy
21. The Breaking of the Viceroy
22. 'Every Man's Hand'
25. Picking Up the Pieces
24. The Conversion of a Diehard, 1909-1911
25. Suffragists and Other Targets, 1911-1914
26. I^rd Curzon at Home
27. In Search of a Role, 1914-1915
28. Air Board and War Cabinet, 1916
29. The Second Lady Curzon
30. Eastern Questions, 1917
31. \jord President
32. The Foreign Office at Last
33. Middle Eastern Scrambles, 1919-1922
34. Lloyd George and the Turks, 1919-1922
35. Resurgence: Lausanne, 1922-1923
36. Family Sagas
37. Ultimate Disappointments, 1923-1925

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