Format:
1 Online-Ressource (376 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755622931
Content:
Introduction -- Chapter 1: 'Dagon must be thrown down' The Origins of the Liberal Unionist party -- Chapter 2: Whiggery or Socialism? The Ideology of Liberal Unionism -- Chapter 3: 'Yeast to leaven the Tory lump' The Unionist Alliance -- Chapter 4: Party Organisation - Cave or Caucus? -- Chapter 5: Liberal Unionism and the electorate - 'A Farce and a Fraud'? -- Chapter 6: 'Strangled by its own parent', The Strange Death of Liberal Unionism - 1895-1912 -- Conclusion: Who were the Liberal Unionists?.
Content:
"The Liberal Unionist party was one of the shortest-lived political parties in British history. It was formed in 1886 by a faction of the Liberal party, led by Lord Hartington, which opposed Irish home rule. In 1895, it entered into a coalition government with the Conservative party and in 1912, now under the leadership of Joseph Chamberlain, it amalgamated with the Conservatives. Ian Cawood here uses previously unpublished archival material to provide the first complete study of the Liberal Unionist party. He argues that the party was a genuinely successful political movement with widespread activist and popular support which resulted in the development of an authentic Liberal Unionist culture across Britain in the mid-1890s. The issues which this book explores are central to an understanding of the development of the twentieth century Conservative party, the emergence of a 'national' political culture, and the problems, both organisational and ideological, of a sustained period of coalition in the British parliamentary system."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857736529
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848859173
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755622931
