8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; xxviii - 308 pp. Second edition. Introduction by G. S. R. Kitson Clark. ". . . an original and unorthodox study of the relationship of public opinion and foreign policy . . . deals with two distinct but related topics: the relation of Gladstone to the public agitation aroused by the Bulgarian atrocities of 1876, and the influence of this dramatic episode on his subsequent career, and hence upon the development of British politics for the rest of the century." Footnotes, bibliography, index. Dr. Shannon was Reader in History at the University of East Anglia. Text is clean, binding sturdy. Dust jacket lightly soiled with a carefully repaired tear on the back.