Gladstone Centenary Essays

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David Bebbington, Roger Swift
Liverpool University Press, 2000 M01 1 - 286 pages
W E Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. Covering the statesman's long political life from the first Reform Act to the last decade of the nineteenth century, this title discusses topics as diverse as parliamentary reform and free trade, Gladstone's English Nonconformist supporters and his Irish Unionist opponents.
 

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Gladstone Chalmers and the Disruption of the Church
10
The Strict Line of Political Succession? Gladstones
29
Gladstone and Homer David Bebbington
57
Gladstone and Parliamentary Reform
75
Gladstone Liberalism and the Government of 18681874
94
Gladstone and Cobden
113
How Gladstone
133
Achievement
163
Gladstone and the Unionists
184
Gladstone
202
Gladstones Fourth Administration 18921894
240
A Select Bibliography
260
260
277
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David Bebbington is Professor of History at the University of Stirling. Roger Swift is Professor of Victorian Studies at Chester College.

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