The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism: 1776-1988

The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism: 1776-1988
ISBN-10
1317899067
ISBN-13
9781317899068
Category
History
Pages
324
Language
English
Published
2014-09-25
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Alan Sykes

Description

Here is the first book to cover the history of British Liberalism from its founding doctrines in the later eighteenth century to the final dissolution of the Liberal party into the Liberal Democrats in 1988. The Party dominated British politics for much of the later nineteenth-century, most notably under Gladstone, whose premierships spanned 1868-1894, and during the early twentieth, but after the resignation of Lloyd George in 1922 the Liberal Party never held office again. The decline of the Party remains a unique phenomenon in British politics and Alan Sykes illuminates its dramatic and peculiar circumstances in this comprehensive study.

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