03341nam 22005651 450 991046452430332120200506135228.00-7556-2293-60-85773-652-310.5040/9780755622931(CKB)3710000000168018(EBL)1727401(MiAaPQ)EBC1727401(Au-PeEL)EBL1727401(OCoLC)883567621(OCoLC)1157235462(UtOrBLW)bpp09265381(EXLCZ)99371000000016801820200603d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Liberal Unionist Party a history /by Ian CawoodFirst edition.London :I.B. Tauris,2012.1 online resource (629 p.)International library of political studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-84885-917-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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?."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 Ian Cawood here uses previously unpublished archival material to provide the first complete study of the Liberal Unionist party.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.International library of political studies.Irish question20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000BICGreat BritainPolitics and government1837-1901Great BritainPolitics and government1901-1910Great BritainPolitics and government1910-1936Irish question.20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.324.241096Cawood Ian970248UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910464524303321The Liberal Unionist Party2254650UNINA