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The Liberal Unionist Party : a History.
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, it a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2012.
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| Colección: | International library of political studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Dagon must be thrown down': The Origins of the Liberal Unionist Party; 2. Whiggery or Socialism? The Ideologies of Liberal Unionism; 3. 'Liberal Yeast to Leaven the Conservative Lump': The Unionist Alliance; 4. Party Organisation
- Cave or Caucus?; 5. Liberal Unionism and the Electorate
- 'A Farce and a Fraud'?; 6. 'Strangled by Its Own Parent': The Strange Death of Liberal Unionism; Conclusion: Who were the Liberal Unionists?
- Appendix 1: The Unionist 'Compact': 'Resolutions' (N.D.
- 1889) (Devonshire Papers 340.2205A)Appendix 2: Liberal Unionist Organising Council (The Times, 21 March 1889); Appendix 3: Members present at National Radical Union Conference, 1 June 1887, Birmingham Town Hall (Cartwright Papers, C(A)1, box 99, unnumbered bundle); Appendix 4: Liberal Unionist General Election Performance, 1886-1900; Appendix 5: Regional Distribution of Liberal Unionist Constituencies, 1886-1918; Appendix 6: Liberal Unionist MPs with Constituency and Dates Held.
- Appendix 7: Liberal Unionist By-Elections, 1886-1912 (Not Including Unopposed Elections)Notes; Bibliography.