the strange death of liberal england by george dangerfield

From the Foreword Review Quotes The book is as vital, if not more so, as when it was first published. There can be few works that are so alive after so many years, as likely to survive, or as enjoyable to read.

it is a study that will always have to be taken into account. With its extraordinary literate and witty prose, its power of description and analysis. The interpretation will not die no matter how often it may be knocked on the head, it has shaped the way the period is viewed. While hundreds of academic monographs have been forgotten, The Strange Death of Liberal England continues as a major influence on how the period is viewed, and scholars and teachers spend considerable energy in coming to terms with the picture of England, in all its richness and complexity, presented in the book. From the Back Cover The book is as vital, if not more so, as when it was first published. Book Synopsis A classic account, first published in 1935, of the dramatic upheaval and political change that overwhelmed England in the period 1910-1914. The years before the First World War are often presented as a golden age, but this stylish and witty history shows the turbulence of an alleged belle époque to have been the writing on the wall for a nation that had for too long thought of itself as all-powerful.About the Book A classic account, first published in 1935, of the dramatic upheaval and political change that overwhelmed England in the period 1910-1914. Three factors combined to bring Liberal England to its knees: the Home Rule crisis brought Ireland to the brink of civil war, while the campaign for women's suffrage created widespread civil disorder, and an unprecedented strike wave swept the land. The Strange Death of Liberal England is the classic study of this rapid collapse of a self-confident body politic. After a resounding electoral triumph in 1906 the Liberals again formed the government of the most powerful nation on earth, yet within a few years the army had mutinied, industrial unrest was rife and civil war loomed in Ireland. At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain's empire spanned the globe, her economy was strong and the political system seemed to be immune from the ills that afflicted so many other countries.

The strange death of liberal england by george dangerfield