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British democracy and Irish nationalism 1876-1906 / Eugenio F. Biagini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biagini, Eugenio F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Irish question.
- Home rule--Ireland.
- Home rule.
- Ireland.
- Democracy--Great Britain.
- Democracy.
- Great Britain.
- Ireland--Politics and government--1837-1901.
- Politics and government.
- Ireland--Politics and government--1901-1910.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 421 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- A major new study of the impact of Home Rule on liberalism and popular radicalism in Britain and Ireland. Eugenio Biagini argues that between 1876 and 1906 the crisis of public conscience caused by the Home Rule debate acted as the main catalyst in the remaking of popular radicalism. This was not only because of Ireland's intrinsic importance, but also because the 'Irish cause' came to be identified with democracy, constitutional freedoms and humanitarianism. The related politics of emotionalism did not aid in finding a solution to either the Home Rule or the Ulster problem, but it did create a popular culture of human rights based on the conviction that, ultimately, politics should be guided by non-negotiable moral imperatives. Adopting a comparative perspective, this book explores the common ground between Irish and British democracy and makes a significant contribution to the history of human rights, imperialism and Victorian political culture.
- Contents:
- 1 Home Rule as a 'crisis of public conscience' 1
- Crisis? What crisis? 1
- The historiography 12
- Revisionisms 18
- The politics of humanitarianism 34
- A synopsis 44
- 2 'That great cause of justice': Home Rule in the context of domestic Liberal and radical politics 50
- Before the 'Hawarden kite' 50
- The politics of emotionalism 67
- The Dissenters 75
- Coercion and 'slavery' 80
- The 'feminization' of Gladstonianism 88
- The Celtic fringe 95
- 3 Constitutional Nationalism and popular liberalism in Ireland 108
- The roots of Irish 'popular liberalism' 108
- Constitutional rights and social tensions 126
- The Union of Hearts 139
- Empire and jingoism 161
- 4 'Giving stability to popular opinion'? Radicalism and the caucus in Britain and Ireland 169
- 'Athenian democracy' or 'American caucus'? 169
- The dream of party democracy, 1886-95 183
- The Irish model 190
- 'Direct democracy' and the representative principle in the NLF political theory 205
- 5 Joseph and his brethren: the rise and fall of Radical Unionism 217
- The rising hope of those stern and unbending Radicals, 1882-6 217
- Coercion, for the sake of civil and religious liberty 238
- Ulster's Liberty 251
- The impotence of being earnest 267
- 6 Social radicalism and the revival of the Gladstonian 'popular front' 275
- Radicals parting ways 275
- From Radical Unionism to socialism: the strange trajectory of the Weekly Times 280
- Sectionalism or class struggle? 291
- 'No voice at Hawarden'? 304
- Armenian atrocities 317
- The National Democratic League 331
- 7 Democracy and the politics of humanitarianism 353
- Home Rule and the politics of humanitarianism 353
- The significance of the 'New Liberalism' 361
- The role of the mass party 368.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521841764
- 0521841763
- OCLC:
- 148297302
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