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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782253903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-78138-665-X; 1-84631-320-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Liverpool Latin American Studies
• Disciplina: 941.081/092
• Soggetti: Prime ministers - Great Britain; Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: I -- Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction David Bebbington -- Gladstone, Chalmers and the Disruption of the Church of -- Scotland Stewart J. Brown -- 'The Strict Line of Political Succession'? Gladstone's -- Relationship with Peel: An Apt Pupil? Eric Evans -- Gladstone and Homer David Bebbington -- Gladstone and Parliamentary Reform Roland Quinault -- Gladstone. Liberalism and the Government of 1868-1874 -- Jonathan Parry -- Gladstone and Cobden Anthony Howe -- Networking through Sound Establishments: How Gladstone -- Could Make Dissenting Sense Clyde Binfield -- Gladstone and Irish Nationalism: Achievement and -- Reputation Alan O'Day -- In the Front Rank of the Nation: Gladstone and the Unionists -- of Ireland. 1868-1893 D. George Boyce -- Exporting 'Western & Beneficent Institutions': Gladstone and -- Empire, 1880-1885 Eugenio Biagini -- Gladstone's Fourth Administration, 1892-1894 -- David Brooks -- 'Carving the Last Few Columns out of the Gladstonian -- Quarry': The Liberal Leaders and the Mantle of Gladstone, -- 1898-1929 Chris Wrigley -- William Ewart Gladstone: A Select Bibliography -- Roger Swift -- 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 last decade of the nineteenth century, they range over topics as diverse as parliamentary reform and free trade, Gladstone's English Nonconformist supporters and his Irish Unionist opponents. A select bibliography, arranged by subject, supplies guidance for further research. The collection forms a tribute, appreciative but critical, to the Grand Old Man of British politics.