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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | W E Gladstone; W E Gladstone; William Ewart Gladstone; W E Gladstone; William Ewart Gladstone; William Ewart Gladstone |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eugenio F Biagini |
ISBN: | 0521403154 9780521403153 0521548861 9780521548861 |
OCLC Number: | 23869026 |
Description: | xii, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Themes and problems -- Who were the popular liberals? -- A note on the sources -- pt. I: Liberty and Retrenchment -- The language of popular liberalism -- The Bible and the Phrygian cap -- From the Reformation to the Risorgimento -- The 'people' against 'privilege' -- The 'coming republic'? -- The 'Great Republic of the West' -- The social contract -- 'Independence' and laissez-faire: The pastoral dream -- The 'moral economy' of free trade -- Gladstone and the plebeian financial reformers -- Tory 'profligacy' and Liberal crusades -- The social question -- The search for 'independence': the ways of solidarity -- Trades unions and civil liberty -- Exceptions to the rule of laissez-faire: the Factory Acts -- Exceptions to the rule of laissez-faire: poor relief, the drink question and municipal socialism. Exceptions to the rule of laissez-faire: the land question -- Anti-clericalism -- Education and human emancipation -- The 1870 Education Act and its aftermath -- The dynamic of popular liberal anti-clericalism -- 'Free churches in a free state': the disestablishment question -- pt. II: Reform -- The Franchise Question -- The appeal of the reformers -- The platform of plebeian reform -- The Reform Act of 1867 -- The revival of 'manhood suffrage' -- The missing revival of 'manhood suffrage' -- The agitation for the Third Reform Bill -- The end of the 'agitations' -- Parliament and Community -- Parliament and electors -- The local community and its self-government -- The party and its forms -- 'Direct' representation -- The Lib-labs and their constituents --The charismatic leader --The need for a charismatic leader -- The 'People's William', 1862-1876 -- The Bulgarian agitation and the origins of the 'demagogue' -- the cult of the leader -- The epic of Midlothian -- The GOM in the 1880s. |
Responsibility: | Eugenio F. Biagini. |
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Abstract:
This is a revealing, innovative synthesis of the history of popular support for the Liberal party, which emphasises the extent to which Liberalism stood in the common heritage of European and American democracy.
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