Gladstone centenary essays
by Bebbington, David Swift, Roger
W.E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for four separate terms. In 1998 an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death, and many of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this v…
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- Full title :Gladstone centenary essays / edited by David Bebbington and Roger Swift.
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W.E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for four separate terms. In 1998 an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death, and many of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume. Covering the whole of the statesman?s long political life from the first Reform Act to the la.
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- Publication Date:2000.
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- Publisher(s):Liverpool University Press
- Place of Publication:Liverpool
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781846313202, 1846313201, 9781781386651, 178138665X
- oclc:ocn276225113
- LC Classification:DA563.4
- Dewey Decimal:941.081/092
Table of Contents
Title Page; Contents; Contributors; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Gladstone, Chalmers and the Disruption of the Church of Scotland; 'The Strict Line of Political Succession'? Gladstone's Relationship with Peel: An Apt Pupil?; Gladstone and Homer; Gladstone and Parliamentary Reform; Gladstone, Liberalism and the Government of 1868-1874; Gladstone and Cobden; Networking through Sound Establishments: How Gladstone Could Make Dissenting Sense; Gladstone and Irish Nationalism: Achievement and Reputation.
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