Author: Walter BagehotPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 84
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The History of the Unreformed Parliament, and Its Lessons. An Essay ... Reprinted from the “National Review.”
Author: Walter BagehotThe Works of Walter Bagehot ...
Author: Walter BagehotPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Golden Age
Author: Ian InksterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351888730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of industrial England. For the next twenty years Britain reigned supreme. From around 1870 Britain began to decline. Britain is now a second rate power with strong memories of its former supremacy. The above five sentences summarise a common view of the sequencing of Britain’s rise and relative fall, a stereotype that is challenged and modified in the essays of The Golden Age. By concentrating on central aspects of social and industrial change authors expose the underpinnings of supremacy, its unsung underside, its tarnished gold. Major themes cover industrial and technological change, social institutions and gender relations in a period during which industry and industrialism were equally celebrated and nurtured. Against this background it is difficult to argue for any sudden decline of energy, assets or institution, nor for any significant move from an industrial society to one in which a hearty manufacturing was replaced by commerce and land, sensibility and artifice.
The character of Sir Robert Peel ; Lord Brougham ; Mr. Gladstone ; William Pitt ; Bolingbroke as a statesman ; Sir George Cornewall Lewis ; The tribute at Hereford to Sir G. C. Lewis ; Adam Smith as a person ; Lord Althorp and the Reform act of 1832 ; Memoir of Right Hon. James Wilson ; The Prince consort ; What Lord Lyndhurst really was ; Mr. Cobden ; Lord Palmerston ; The Earl of Clarendon ; Mr. Lowe as chancellor of the exchequer ; M. Guizot. Professor Cairnes ; Mr. Disraeli as a member of the House of commons
Author: Walter BagehotPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Heroic imperialists in Africa
Author: Berny SèbePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526103516
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From the height of ‘New Imperialism’ until the Second World War, three generations of heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged for consumption by a metropolitan public eager to discover new horizons and to find comfort in the concept of a ‘civilising mission’. This book looks at imperial heroism by examining the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories of Livingstone, Gordon and Kitchener from a radically new angle, and throwing light on their French counterparts, often less famous in the Anglophone world but certainly equally fascinating.
In Search of Stability
Author: Charles S. MaierPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521346986
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy ponders the issue of how Western industrial societies overcame major challenges to political and economic stability in the twentieth century. Successive essays ask: what ideological messages did American influence transmit to Europe after World War I, then again after World War II? Did Nazis and Italian fascists share an economic ideology or impose a unique economic system in the interwar period and during World War II? How do their accomplishments stack up comparatively against those of the liberal democracies? After 1945, what was the relationship between concepts of productivity and class division? How have the major experiences of twentieth-century inflation arisen out of class and interest-group rivalry? Most generally, what has been the representation of interests in capitalist political economies?
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: The Economist
Author: second supplement to the catalogue of the library
Author: A Catalogue of the Library of the Athenæum
Author: Athenæum Club (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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