The Liberal Unionist Party

A History

Ian Cawood (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

2012
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-84885-917-3 (ISBN)

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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 Ian Cawood here uses previously unpublished archival material to provide the first complete study of the Liberal Unionist party.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.

Ian Cawood is Head of History at Newman University College, Birmingham. He holds a PhD from University of Leicester. He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and his previous publications include The First World War and Britain in the Twentieth Century.

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?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.8.2012
Zusatzinfo	50 integrated bw
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	585 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-84885-917-1 / 1848859171
ISBN-13	978-1-84885-917-3 / 9781848859173
Zustand	Neuware