Ross McKibbin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199584697
- eISBN:
- 9780191702402
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199584697.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Those English who reached adulthood before 1914 and were still alive in 1945 witnessed a party-political transformation possibly unique in modern English history: namely, the effective destruction of ...
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Those English who reached adulthood before 1914 and were still alive in 1945 witnessed a party-political transformation possibly unique in modern English history: namely, the effective destruction of the Liberal Party as one of England's two governing parties, and with it the marginalization of an important element of the country's political elite. Many of those marginalized were representatives of a form of social Liberalism which could claim to have dominated Edwardian politics both intellectually and politically. In 1914, few would have predicted this outcome and there is little agreement among historians as to why it happened. Nor how it happened; how far, especially, it was the result of the First World War. This chapter argues that the Edwardian system was based upon an equipoise in balance in 1914 but one delicate enough for it to be severely unbalanced by events which began with the outbreak of the First World War.Less
Those English who reached adulthood before 1914 and were still alive in 1945 witnessed a party-political transformation possibly unique in modern English history: namely, the effective destruction of the Liberal Party as one of England's two governing parties, and with it the marginalization of an important element of the country's political elite. Many of those marginalized were representatives of a form of social Liberalism which could claim to have dominated Edwardian politics both intellectually and politically. In 1914, few would have predicted this outcome and there is little agreement among historians as to why it happened. Nor how it happened; how far, especially, it was the result of the First World War. This chapter argues that the Edwardian system was based upon an equipoise in balance in 1914 but one delicate enough for it to be severely unbalanced by events which began with the outbreak of the First World War.
Roderick Floud
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780192892102
- eISBN:
- 9780191670602
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192892102.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Economic History
The inspiration for this book comes from the words of Adam Smith: ‘Consumption is the sole end of and purpose of all production.…’ This book concentrates, in that spirit, on people rather on things; ...
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The inspiration for this book comes from the words of Adam Smith: ‘Consumption is the sole end of and purpose of all production.…’ This book concentrates, in that spirit, on people rather on things; it describes the overall income and wealth of Britain, its growth, and how that income and wealth was produced by and distributed between different people in the population. Population growth has a central place, as do the changes in home and workplace, in the transformation of the lives of successive generations in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Between 1830 and 1914 Britain became the world's major trading nation, carrier of the majority of the world's goods, by far the largest investor overseas, and the centre of the world's financial system. It was an exceptional time in the history of the country and one to which many look back, even a hundred years later, with nostalgia. This book describes and assesses what was achieved in those eighty-five years.Less
The inspiration for this book comes from the words of Adam Smith: ‘Consumption is the sole end of and purpose of all production.…’ This book concentrates, in that spirit, on people rather on things; it describes the overall income and wealth of Britain, its growth, and how that income and wealth was produced by and distributed between different people in the population. Population growth has a central place, as do the changes in home and workplace, in the transformation of the lives of successive generations in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Between 1830 and 1914 Britain became the world's major trading nation, carrier of the majority of the world's goods, by far the largest investor overseas, and the centre of the world's financial system. It was an exceptional time in the history of the country and one to which many look back, even a hundred years later, with nostalgia. This book describes and assesses what was achieved in those eighty-five years.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804774451
- eISBN:
- 9780804779036
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804774451.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the political and economic environment of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain from which Weetman Pearson emerged to build his Mexican business empire. It explains that Pearson ...
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This chapter examines the political and economic environment of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain from which Weetman Pearson emerged to build his Mexican business empire. It explains that Pearson was already a successful public works contractor when he started his first venture into overseas contracting in the 1880s. This chapter highlights the interplay of politics and business in Pearson's career and explains that he became a member of the House of Commons in 1895 and the House of Lords in 1910 when he was granted a peerage.Less
This chapter examines the political and economic environment of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain from which Weetman Pearson emerged to build his Mexican business empire. It explains that Pearson was already a successful public works contractor when he started his first venture into overseas contracting in the 1880s. This chapter highlights the interplay of politics and business in Pearson's career and explains that he became a member of the House of Commons in 1895 and the House of Lords in 1910 when he was granted a peerage.
Peter Donaldson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846319686
- eISBN:
- 9781781381038
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846319686.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Fostered by an increasingly literate public and burgeoning populist press, the South African War, in which over 22,000 soldiers of the British Empire died, catalysed a transition in British ...
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Fostered by an increasingly literate public and burgeoning populist press, the South African War, in which over 22,000 soldiers of the British Empire died, catalysed a transition in British commemorative practice and foreshadowed the rituals of remembrance that engulfed Britain in the aftermath of the First World War. Remembering the South African War provides the first comprehensive look at how the British remembered the conflict with the Boers. The work situates memorialisation within larger Edwardian Britain, examining everything from the committees who managed memorials to the financing that supported them and the aesthetic debates that determined their forms. An exploration of the literary and televisual representations of the war reveals the continuities and discontinuities in the public memory of the conflict. Through a comprehensive study of the remembrance of this single war light is shed on the methods by which Britain has gone about managing history—and its sense of self within it—in the twentieth century. Less
Fostered by an increasingly literate public and burgeoning populist press, the South African War, in which over 22,000 soldiers of the British Empire died, catalysed a transition in British commemorative practice and foreshadowed the rituals of remembrance that engulfed Britain in the aftermath of the First World War. Remembering the South African War provides the first comprehensive look at how the British remembered the conflict with the Boers. The work situates memorialisation within larger Edwardian Britain, examining everything from the committees who managed memorials to the financing that supported them and the aesthetic debates that determined their forms. An exploration of the literary and televisual representations of the war reveals the continuities and discontinuities in the public memory of the conflict. Through a comprehensive study of the remembrance of this single war light is shed on the methods by which Britain has gone about managing history—and its sense of self within it—in the twentieth century.
