The Rise And Fall Of Liberal Government In Victorian Britain

Author : Jonathan Parry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300067187
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain written by Jonathan Parry and published by . This book was released on 1996-03-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1830 and 1886, Liberals dominated British politics. Focusing on the strategies of successive Liberal leaders, this study gives an overview of that dominance and argues that liberalism was a much more coherent force than has generally been recognized by historians.

Author : Alan Sykes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317899067
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism written by Alan Sykes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first book to cover the history of British Liberalism from its founding doctrines in the later eighteenth century to the final dissolution of the Liberal party into the Liberal Democrats in 1988. The Party dominated British politics for much of the later nineteenth-century, most notably under Gladstone, whose premierships spanned 1868-1894, and during the early twentieth, but after the resignation of Lloyd George in 1922 the Liberal Party never held office again. The decline of the Party remains a unique phenomenon in British politics and Alan Sykes illuminates its dramatic and peculiar circumstances in this comprehensive study.

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231096676
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain written by David Cannadine and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although politicians in Britain are now calling for a "classless society," can one conclude, as do many scholars, that class does not matter anymore? Cannadine uncovers the meanings of class for such disparate figures as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Margaret Thatcher and identifies the moments when opinion shifted, such as the aftermath of the French Revolution and the rise of the Labour Party in the early twentieth century.

Author : M. Baer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035293
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 written by M. Baer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy. Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and tranquil in an age of democracy.

Author : T. Jenkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349234834
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Ascendancy, 1830–1886 written by T. Jenkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-07-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse coalition of forces that came to be known as the Liberal party dominated British politics in the period between 1830 and 1886. This book seeks to account for the remarkable success of the Liberals by analysing who they were, both in parliament and in the constituencies, and showing how they managed to inter-relate. But at the same time it is emphasised that the dominance of the Liberals was seldom a simple matter, let alone a foregone conclusion. The complex story of the Liberal ascendancy requires the interweaving of high political strategy, the practical business of government, the electoral position of the party, and the development of Liberal ideology. It also involves assessing the personalities of outstanding individuals such as Earl Grey, Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston, and W.E. Gladstone.

Author : Peter Mandler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191533866
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain written by Peter Mandler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of 'laissez-faire', the place and the time when people were most 'free' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book explores the truth of that assumption and what it might mean. It considers what the Victorian State did or did not do, what were the prevailing definitions and practices of 'liberty', what other sources of discipline and authority existed beyond the State to structure people's lives - in sum, what were the broad conditions under which such a profound belief in 'liberty' could flourish, and a complex society be run on those principles. Contributors include leading scholars in British political, social and cultural history, so that 'liberty' is seen in the round, not just as a set of ideas or of political slogans, but also as a public and private philosophy that structured everyday life. Consideration is also given to the full range of British subjects in the nineteenth century - men, women, people of all classes, from all parts of the British Isles - and to placing the British experience in a global and comparative perspective.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719063923
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palmerston and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1846-55 written by David Brown and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to examine in detail the construction and meaning of Palmerston's reputation as the "national" minister and how the careful projection of this popular image to a wide audience allowed him to bring to bear on parliamentary politics a broad range of extra-parliamentary influences.

Author : I. Cawood
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137528850
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph Chamberlain written by I. Cawood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill described Joseph Chamberlain as 'the man who made the weather' for twenty years in British politics between the 1880s and the 1900s. This volume contains contributions on every aspect of Chamberlain's career, including international and cultural perspectives hitherto ignored by his many biographers. It breaks his career into three aspects: his career as an international statesman, defender of British interests and champion of imperial federation; his role as a national leader, opposing Gladstone's crusade for Irish home rule by forming an alliance with the Conservatives, campaigning for social reform and finally advocating a protectionist economic policy to promote British business; and the aspect for which he is still celebrated in his adopted city, as the provider of sanitation, gas lighting, clean water and cultural achievement for Birmingham – a model of civic regeneration that still inspires modern politicians such as Michael Heseltine, Tristram Hunt and David Willetts.

Author : David Loades
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000144364
Total Pages : 4319 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reader's Guide to British History written by David Loades and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 4319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.

Author : D. Craig
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137312890
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by D. Craig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensible and accessible portrait of the various 'languages' which shaped public life in nineteenth century Britain, covering key themes such as governance, statesmanship, patriotism, economics, religion, democracy, women's suffrage, Ireland and India.