Gladstone centenary essays / edited by David Bebbington and Roger Swift.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bebbington, David, 1949-

Swift, Roger.

Conference Name:

Gladstone Centenary International Conference (1998 : Chester College)

Series:

Liverpool Latin American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898.

Gladstone, W. E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 last decade of the nineteenth century, they range over topics as diverse as parliamentary reform and free trade, Gladstone's English Nonconformist supporters and his Irish Unionist opponents. A select bibliography, arranged by subject, supplies guidance for further research. The collection forms a tribute, appreciative but critical, to the Grand Old Man of British politics.

Contents:

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Contributors

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction David Bebbington

Gladstone, Chalmers and the Disruption of the Church of

Scotland Stewart J. Brown

'The Strict Line of Political Succession'? Gladstone's

Relationship with Peel: An Apt Pupil? Eric Evans

Gladstone and Homer David Bebbington

Gladstone and Parliamentary Reform Roland Quinault

Gladstone. Liberalism and the Government of 1868-1874

Jonathan Parry

Gladstone and Cobden Anthony Howe

Networking through Sound Establishments: How Gladstone

Could Make Dissenting Sense Clyde Binfield

Gladstone and Irish Nationalism: Achievement and

Reputation Alan O'Day

In the Front Rank of the Nation: Gladstone and the Unionists

of Ireland. 1868-1893 D. George Boyce

Exporting 'Western & Beneficent Institutions': Gladstone and

Empire, 1880-1885 Eugenio Biagini

Gladstone's Fourth Administration, 1892-1894

David Brooks

'Carving the Last Few Columns out of the Gladstonian

Quarry': The Liberal Leaders and the Mantle of Gladstone,

1898-1929 Chris Wrigley

William Ewart Gladstone: A Select Bibliography

Roger Swift

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78138-665-X

1-84631-320-1

OCLC:

476209199