Gladstone: Heroic Minister, 1865-98 v. 2

Biographies & Memoirs

Shannon, Richard

Historical

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Crisis of Imperialism, 1865-1915

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Gladstone and the Bulgarian Agitation, 1876

Shoe String Pr Inc

Gladstone, Vol. 1: 1809-65

Hamish Hamilton

The Crisis of Imperialism 1865-1915

The crisis of imperialism, 1865-1915 (The Paladin history of England)

Hart-Davis, MacGibbon

Richard Shannon's study of The Age of Disraeli, 1868-1881: The Rise of Tory Democracy (the second volume chronologically in Longman's authoritative History of the Conservative Party) was published to great acclaim in 1992. Here now is its successor, covering the fortunes of the Conservative Party in the period after the death of Disraeli, under the leadership of Lord Salisbury, whose premierships (1885-86, 1886-92 and 1895-1902) provide the main substance of the book. Richard Shannon explores the changes in party thinking and organization under the pressures of the newly expanded electorate. In doing so, he traces the growing ascendancy of Salisbury, who, after sharing the dual leadership of the Party from the Lords with Sir Stafford Northcote in the Commons, became sole leader on forming his first cabinet in 1885. Aristocrat, High Church Anglican, and astute diplomat, Salisbury held the unruly party together by his personal authority; and, by offering moderate social reform along with opposition to Irish Home Rule, he was able to forge the alliance between the Conservatives and the Unionists that would dominate British politics for the rest of the century and beyond. But Richard Shannon argues that one of the unforeseen effects of the Unionist alliance was to stifle the emergence of new social elements in the Party at large. Fittingly, it is Salisbury himself who provides Professor Shannon with the key text for interpreting the period when he noted in 1882: 'Let us hope the chapter of accidents may help us: we shall hardly do much to help ourselves.' For, as this book amply discloses, the Party's success in the later nineteenth century was not at all a matter of purposeful design or conscious plan. Rather, it was a process of adaptation to unforeseen circumstances. The extent of the transformation was astonishing given the relatively short period covered by the book - but it was imposed on the Party from outside by the forces of social change and the accidents (mostly, at least in the earlier part of the period, fortunate ones) of political life. In these crowded years, Salisbury and his colleagues had much to contend with: a turbulent party and changing electorate at home, the demands of empire and growing rivalry with Germany, France and the United States abroad, and, above all, the problems of Irish Home Rule and the Unionist alliance somewhere in between. Shannon does full justice to the impact of these matters on the Conservative Party - and vice versa - in his massive study.

The Age of Salisbury, 1881-1902: Unionism and Empire (A History of the Conservative Party)

World

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

The Conservative party has proved to be the most successful political party in Britain since Disraeli's Reform Act of 1867 established a 'democratic' franchise in the boroughs. Yet Disraeli's attempts to reconcile the elements of what later became known as 'Tory Democracy' was judged by most Conservatives at the time to be risky, and by some to be a disastrous betrayal of Conservatism. One of the latter, Lord Salisbury, bemusedly remarked in 1897 on the 'very strange history' of the Conservative party's survival and increasing political prosperity in the later nineteenth century. This latest addition to the History of the Conservative Party is an attempt to write the first part of that 'very strange history'. (Richard Shannon is now at work on a sequel to the present volume taking the story through the Salisbury years to 1902.) The Age of Disraeli is a rich and detailed study of the processes by which, through a curious combination of design and accident, the Conservative party managed to adapt to these new circumstances and accomodate [sic] the new interests that would secure its future fortunes. In particular, Richard Shannon shows how, behind Disraeli's vain attempt to preserve aristocratic politics in an age of popular franchise, the 'villa', or suburban, Conservatism was begining [sic] to take shape, that would carry the party triumphantly into the new era. This is a major contribution to nineteenth-century political studies. As such it will be necessary reading for scholars and students of Victorian Britain; but it will also richly reward the general reader seriously interested in the origins of the modern political scene.

The Age of Disraeli, 1868-1881: The Rise of Tory Democracy (A History of the Conservative Party Series)

Gladstone: Volume One 1809-1865

Europe

Univ of North Carolina Pr

William Ewart Gladstone was perhaps the greatest colossus of the Victorian Age. Along with his formidable rival, Benjamin Disraeli, he dominated Britain's political scene from the moment of his appointment as chancellor of the exchequer in Aberdeen's famous coalition ministry until his resignation as prime minister in March 1894, four years before his death. In the intervening years, he held the office of prime minister four times.
With this volume, Richard Shannon completes his magisterial biography of Gladstone. Tracing Gladstone's career from his rise to eminence in 1865 until his death in 1898, Shannon documents his emergence as the dominant personality in the Liberal Party, his activities as a statesman, and his decades-long battle with Disraeli.
In his analysis, Shannon pays particular attention to Gladstone's attempts to integrate his religion with his career. Profoundly influenced by his Anglican Christianity, Gladstone approached his causes with a missionary fervor, Shannon argues. This tenacity is perhaps best illustrated by Gladstone's unyielding support of Irish home rule—a position so at odds with Liberal policies that it caused many Liberals to ally themselves with the Conservatives, thereby instigating the decline of Gladstone's own party.

Gladstone: Volume II, 1865-1898

The University of North Carolina Press

The peacock and the phoenix: Poems, 1963-1971 : designs and text, 1970-1975

Celestial Arts

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