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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453514903321

Titolo

Gladstone centenary essays [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Bebbington and Roger Swift

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-78138-665-X

1-84631-320-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Liverpool Latin American Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BebbingtonD. W <1949-> (David William)

SwiftRoger

Disciplina

941.081

941.081092B

Soggetti

Prime ministers - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

In the Front Rank of the Nation: Gladstone and the Unionists of Ireland, 1868-1893Exporting 'Western & Beneficent Institutions': Gladstone and Empire, 1880-1885; Gladstone's Fourth Administration, 1892-1894; 'Carving the Last Few Columns out of the Gladstonian Quarry': The Liberal Leaders and the Mantle of Gladstone, 1898-1929; William Ewart Gladstone: A Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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