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

• Pubblicazione: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 941.081; 941.081092B
• Soggetto topico: Prime ministers - Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BebbingtonD. W <1949-> (David William) SwiftRoger
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Gladstone centenary essays
• ISBN: 1-78138-665-X; 1-84631-320-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453514903321
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• Serie: Liverpool Latin American Studies