The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939 - Softcover

Pugh, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631179283 ISBN 13: 9780631179283

Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1993

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First published in 1982, "The Making of Modern British Politics" is a general analysis of the process of change in British political history between the 1860s and the outbreak of the Second World War. Martin Pugh concentrates on the problems of interpretation and analysis raised by recent work in the field. He shows how politics gradually came to revolve less around the moral-political issues of the Victorian era and more around the economic and social role of the state during the 20th century. He considers the eventual decline of the Victorian Liberal Party, the explanations for the rise of Labour and the reasons for the capacity of the Conservatives to survive in changing circumstances. Extensively revised, the book reflects the findings of recent research on, among other things, the role of religion in late Victorian politics, the importance of taxation in party loyalties, the Edwardian electorate and the franchise reforms of 1918, the role of women as parliamentary voters, and the debate over the extent to which state social welfare was popular amongst the working class.

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Martin Pugh is Research Professor in History at Liverpool John Moores University. His previous books include Electoral Reform in War and Peace (1978), The Tories and the People (1985), Women and the Women's Movement in Britain (1992) and The March of the Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Women's Suffrage Movement (2000). He is also the editor of Blackwell's Companion to Modern European History, 1871–1945 (1997).

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Since its first publication in 1982, The Making of Modern British Politics has been widely acclaimed as the most sophisticated account of changes in British political history between the 1860s and the outbreak of the Second World War. For the third edition, the text has been extended to cover the politics of the Second World War and the election of 1945, following through to a more satisfying conclusion the changes of the last 40 years of the nineteenth century.

The updated third edition, like the previous two, focuses on the problems of interpretation and analysis raised by the most recent work in the field. Several of the existing chapters have been revised in light of the latest research, particularly the material on Edwardian electoral politics and the high politics of 1918 31. The new edition also incorporates current thinking on the Popular Front and fascism, and looks at how the Labour Party evolved into a national rather than sectional party by recruiting Conservative voters and politicians into its ranks.

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• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0631179283
• ISBN 13: 9780631179283
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar