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The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (Paperback, New Paperback Ed)
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The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (Paperback, New Paperback Ed)
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This book presents the first modern overview of Liberal government
during the period when the Liberals dominated British politics.
Parry argues that Liberalism was a much more coherent force than
has been generally recognised, and goes on to reinterpret the
pattern of nineteenth-century political development. The Liberal
tradition attached great importance to 'parliamentary government'
as the means of reconciling the nation to the exercise of
government power, and Parry concentrates on parliamentary politics,
seeing it as the best way to understand the Liberals' coherence and
success. After a review of the origins of Liberalism before 1830,
the book examines in turn the strategies of successive Liberal
leaders from Grey to Gladstone and Hartington. Nineteenth-century
Liberalism was concerned to maintain the rule of a propertied but
socially diverse, rational and civilised elite, in the belief that
this was the best means to administer the state economically and
equitably, and to promote an industrious and virtuous citizenship.
Because of the widespread popularity of the economic, foreign and
religious policies followed to this end, and because of the
flexible, sometimes cynical, presentational skills of Liberal
leaders, the Liberals became the most popular party for much of the
century. After 1867 however, argues Parry, Gladstone's crusading
politics outweighed the gains achieved by the organisational
mobilisation of grass-roots groups and led directly to the break up
of the party in 1886. This book therefore not only presents a clear
and original introduction to nineteenth-century Liberal politics,
but also explores the theory, practice and consequences of Liberal
approaches to theconstitution and to religious, moral and social
policy.
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