The Liberal Unionist Party : a history / / by Ian Cawood

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910806189003321
• Autore: Cawood Ian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2012
• ISBN: 0-7556-2293-6; 0-85773-652-3
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (629 p.)
• Collana: International library of political studies
• Disciplina: 324.241096; 324.24102
• Soggetti: Irish question; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901; Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1910; Great Britain Politics and government 1910-1936
• 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: 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?.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 Ian Cawood here uses previously unpublished archival material to provide the first complete study of the Liberal Unionist party.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.