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George Dangerfield is the author of The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-1914 (2017), The Damnable Question (1999), The Strange Death of Liberal England (1997), The Era of Good Feelings (1989), Howard Warshaw (1977).

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The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-1914

release date: Jan 01, 2017
The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-1914
"This book focuses on the chaos that overtook England on the eve of the First World War. Dangerfield weaves together the three wild strands of the Irish Rebellion (the rebellion in Ulster), the Suffragette Movement and the Labour Movement to produce a vital picture of the state of mind and the most pressing social problems in England at the time. The country was preparing even then for its entrance into the twentieth century and total war. Dangerfield argues that between the death of Edward VII and the First World War there was a considerable hiatus in English history. He states that 1910 was a landmark year in English history. In 1910 the English spirit flared up, so that by the end of 1913 Liberal England was reduced to ashes. From these ashes, a new England emerged in which the true prewar Liberalism was supported by free trade, a majority in Parliament, the Ten Commandments, but the illusion of progress vanished. That extravagant behavior of the postwar decade, Dangerfield notes, had begun before the war. The war hastened everything - in politics, in economics, in behavior - but it started nothing. George Dangerfield''s wonderfully written 1935 book has been extraordinarily influential. Scarcely any important analyst of modern Britain has failed to cite it and to make use of the understanding Dangerfield provides. This edition is timely, since the year 2010 has seen a definitive resurrection of Liberal power. Subsequent to the General Election of July 2010 the government of the United Kingdom has been in the hands of a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition. The Deputy Prime Minister is the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party - the direct successor of the old Liberal Party examined by Dangerfield. Five Liberal Democrat members of Parliament were appointed to the Cabinet and there are Liberal Democrat ministers in all governmental departments. After decades of absence from government power, Liberalism seems to be back with a vengeance."--Provided by publisher.

The Damnable Question

release date: Jan 01, 1999
The Damnable Question
Ireland holds fiercely to her identity. Starting with the Act of Union in the 1800s, historian George Dangerfield dives into the "Irish Question." Dealing with such events as the Easter Rising and the famine, The Damnable Question explains Ireland''s intense patriotism even after so many people immigrated to the United States. - Publisher.

The Strange Death of Liberal England

release date: Jan 01, 1997
The Strange Death of Liberal England
At the beginning of the twentieth century England''s empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the ills that inflicted so many other countries. After a resounding electoral triumph in 1906, the Liberals formed the government of the most powerful nation on earth, yet within a few years the House of Lords lost its absolute veto over legislation, the Home Rule crisis brought Ireland to the brink of civil war and led to an army mutiny, the campaign for woman''s suffrage created widespread civil disorder and discredited the legal and penal systems, and an unprecedented wave of strikes swept the land. This is a classic account, first published in 1935, of the dramatic upheaval and political change that overwhelmed England in the period 1910-1914. Few books of history retain their relevance and vitality after more than sixty years. The Strange Death of Liberal England is one of the most important books of the English past, a prime example that history can be abiding literature. As a portrait of England enmeshed in the turbulence of new movements, which often led to violence against the pieties of Liberal England—until it was overwhelmed by the greatest violence of all, World War I—this extraordinary book has continued to exert a powerful influence on the way historians have observed early twentieth-century England.

The Era of Good Feelings

release date: Aug 01, 1989
The Era of Good Feelings
Winner of the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes, this is the standard history of the years between Jefferson and Jackson. "An agile piece of historical writing--witty, selective, and illuminating."--New Yorker.

The Strange Death of Liberal England. Rev. Ed

The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828

The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828
Investigates changing interpretations of Nationalism following the War of 1812.

The Awakining of American Nationalism, 1815-1828

The awakening of American nationalism, 1815-28

History of the United States of America. History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison ... Abridged with an Introduction by George Dangerfield, Otey M. Scruggs

The Steamboat's Charter of Freedom

The Steamboat's Charter of Freedom
The famous case of Gibbons v. Ogden, decided on March 2, 1824, was, with its preceding litigation, ultimately concered with a single question: the power of Congress to regulate interstate as well as foreign commerce.

Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813

If Only Mr. Madison Had Waited-.

If Only Mr. Madison Had Waited-.
Gambling on a diplomatic coup with a wily Napoleon, he maneuvered America into the needless War of 1812.

If only Mr. Madison had waited; gambling on a diplomatic coup with a wily Napoleon, he maneuvered America into the needless War of 1812

Lord Liverpool and the United States

Lord Liverpool and the United States
Spokesman for a rising industrialism, this prime minister bid for free trade with the United States and helped to create something quite different.

Victoria's Heir. The Education of a Prince, Etc

The Strange Death of Liberal England [1910-1914]...

The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1823

Sermons and Literary Remains of the Rev. Robert George Dangerfield ... Revised by the Revds. William Hinton Drake and John Howell Dangerfield. [With a portrait.]

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