The Aberdeen Coalition, 1852-1855 : a study in mid-nineteenth-century party politics
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The Aberdeen Coalition, 1852-1855 : a study in mid-nineteenth-century party politics
Cambridge University Press, 1968
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Bibliography: p. 567-573
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Description
This book examines the Aberdeen Administration of 1852-1855 in detail in order to clarify the complicated subject of party relationships in mid-nineteenth-century British politics and the operation of the British parliamentary system at that time. Its interest centres on the role of the Peelites in the Coalition as a stage in the evolution of the Gladstonian Liberal party. The author describes the formation of the Coalition, the Cabinet membership and the legislative achievements of 1853 Gladstone's famous Budget settling the issue of the Income Tax, the now forgotten India Act and valuable reform legislation. The success of 1853 is contrasted with the failure of 1854. The author describes the routine problems that faced all ministries, the endless parliamentary wrangles over religion and Ireland, the colourful contributions to debate by such eccentrics as Colonel Sibthorpe, the problems of patronage, and the relations between the Prime Minister and the Queen.
Table of Contents
- Part I. the Formation of the coalition and its early Parliamentary successes: 1. The formation of the Aberdeen coalition, December 1852
- 2. The coalition cabinet
- 3. Peelite finance: Gladstone's first budget
- 4. The India Act of 1853
- 5. Religious issues and reform measures
- 6. The coalition triumphant: an assessment of the first session
- Part II. The Coalition and the origins of the Crimean War: 7. The Eastern Question: from the Seymour Conversations to the Vienna note
- 8. The Eastern Question: the failure of negotiation - August to December 1853
- 9. A domestic interlude - the cabinet crisis of December 1853
- 10. The drift to war from December 1853 to March 1854
- 11. Parliament, public opinion and the outbreak of war
- Part III. Reform and Frustration: 12. Lord John Russell's parliamentary reform bill of 1854
- 13. The Peelite contribution to reform in 1854
- 14. Frustration: the failure of the legislative programme of 1854
- Part IV. The Crimean War and the fall of the coalition
- 15. The conduct of the war - the debate in parliament, April-August 1854
- 16. The conduct of the war - some diplomatic problems
- 17. The conduct of the war - the invasion of the Crimea
- 18. The end of the coalition
- Conclusion.
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