Modern British statesmen, 1867-1945
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Modern British statesmen, 1867-1945
Manchester University Press, 1997
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780719050794
Description
Following an introduction which identifies what the authors believe to be the central theme of the 1867-1945 period - namely the growth of state intervention and a "social democratic" political culture - this text consists of 12 chapters which inspect the career of a particular influential politician. Each chapter is divided into four sections: background; apprenticeship; limelight; and legacy.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the road to social democracy, Richard Kelly and John Cantrell
- Benjamin Disraeli, Michael Lynch
- William Gladstone, Michael Lynch
- Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Cunningham
- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Hugh Cecil
- Joseph Chamberlain, Jeremy Smith
- Arthur Balfour, Jane Ridley
- Herbert Asquith, Harry Bennett
- David Lloyd George, Robin Barlow
- Ramsey MacDonald, Robert Garner
- Stanley Baldwin, Stuart Ball
- Neville Chamberlain, Nick Smart
- Winston Churchill, Owen Hartley. Appendices: governments and major office holders 1866-1945
- leaders of principal political parties 1867-1945
- government revenue and income tax 1867-1945
- general election results 1867-1945
- biographical summaries 1867-1945.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719050800
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The changes and divisions on the left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study. While the Labour Party's supported establishing a Jewish state in Palestine, as a modernising force, the communist movement opposed it, on the grounds that it facilitated imperial influence in the Middle East. In 1947, however, the British Communist Party rallied to the Zionist cause, leaving the Palestinian cause with no effective protagonists in Britain. The left's sympathy, at the time, was overwhelmingly with the Israeli state, considering its establishment a recompense to the Jewish people for the Holocaust. It was only after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, that the new left in Britain began to articulate a critical attitude to Israel and support for Palestinian nationalism. It is a perspective which has gradually gained ground in the political mainstream. -- .
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the road to social democracy, Richard Kelly and John Cantrell
- Benjamin Disraeli, Michael Lynch
- William Gladstone, Michael Lynch
- Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Cunningham
- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Hugh Cecil
- Joseph Chamberlain, Jeremy Smith
- Arthur Balfour, Jane Ridley
- Herbert Asquith, Harry Bennett
- David Lloyd George, Robin Barlow
- Ramsey MacDonald, Robert Garner
- Stanley Baldwin, Stuart Ball
- Neville Chamberlain, Nick Smart
- Winston Churchill, Owen Hartley. Appendices: governments and major office holders 1866-1945
- leaders of principal political parties 1867-1945
- government revenue and income tax 1867-1945
- general election results 1867-1945
- biographical summaries 1867-1945.
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