Democracy Capitalism And Empire In Late Victorian Britain 1885 1910

Author : E. Spencer Wellhofer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349246885

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Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885–1910 by E. Spencer Wellhofer Pdf

Late Victorian Britain witnessed three challenges to its eighteenth-century Republican Ideal: democracy, capitalism and ethnic nationalism. Calling upon the languages and debates of the period, the book examines contending images of the social order with new data analytic techniques and information. Joining the contextual study of history to advanced analytic techniques refutes standard interpretations and provides a more complete portrait of the period. The conclusions on democratic transition have important implications for understanding today's efforts to reap democracy's rewards.

Author : E. Spencer Wellhofer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0312129165

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Democracy, Capitalism, and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885-1910 by E. Spencer Wellhofer Pdf

Author : Ruth Berins Collier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316583920

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Paths toward Democracy by Ruth Berins Collier Pdf

The question of whether democratization is an elite-led process from above or a popular triumph from below continues to be an area of contention among political scientists. Examining the experiences of countries which have provided the main empirical base for recent theorizing, namely, Western Europe and South America in the 19th and early 20th centuries and again in the 1970s and 1980s, this book delineates a more complex and varied set of patterns. The volume explores the politics of democratization through a comparative analysis that examines the role of labor in relation to elite strategies in both contemporary and historical perspectives. In her detailed analysis, Professor Collier also describes multiple patterns within each historical period, challenges conventional understandings of these events, and recaptures a role for unions and labor-based parties in contemporary processes of democratization.

Author : Theodore Koditschek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139494885

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Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination by Theodore Koditschek Pdf

This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the role of the historical imagination in the establishment and legitimation of liberal imperialism. He shows how both imperialists and the imperialized were drawn to reflect back on the Empire's past as a result of the need to construct a modern, multi-national British imperial identity for a more economically expansive and enlightened present. By tracing the imperial lives and historical works of these pivotal figures, Theodore Koditschek illuminates the ways in which discourse altered practice, and vice versa, as well as how the history of Empire was continuously written and re-written.

Author : Kevin Narizny
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801474302

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The Political Economy of Grand Strategy by Kevin Narizny Pdf

A nation's grand strategy rarely serves the best interests of all its citizens. Instead, every strategic choice benefits some domestic groups at the expense of others. When groups with different interests separate into opposing coalitions, societal debates over foreign policy become polarized along party lines. Parties then select leaders who share the priorities of their principal electoral and financial backers. As a result, the overarching goals and guiding principles of grand strategy, as formulated at the highest levels of government, derive from domestic coalitional interests. In The Political Economy of Grand Strategy, Kevin Narizny develops these insights into a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of security policy.The focus of this analysis is the puzzle of partisanship. The conventional view of grand strategy, in which state leaders act as neutral arbiters of the "national interest," cannot explain why political turnover in the executive office often leads to dramatic shifts in state behavior. Narizny, in contrast, shows how domestic politics structured foreign policymaking in the United States and Great Britain from 1865 to 1941. In so doing, he sheds light on long-standing debates over the revival of British imperialism, the rise of American expansionism, the creation of the League of Nations, American isolationism in the interwar period, British appeasement in the 1930s, and both countries' decisions to enter World War I and World War II.

Author : Ian Cawood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857736529

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The Liberal Unionist Party by Ian Cawood Pdf

The Liberal Unionist party was one of the shortest-lived political parties in British history. It was formed in 1886 by a faction of the Liberal party, led by Lord Hartington, which opposed Irish home rule. In 1895, it entered into a coalition government with the Conservative party and in 1912, now under the leadership of Joseph Chamberlain, it amalgamated with the Conservatives. Ian Cawood here uses previously unpublished archival material to provide the first complete study of the Liberal Unionist party. He argues that the party was a genuinely successful political movement with widespread activist and popular support which resulted in the development of an authentic Liberal Unionist culture across Britain in the mid-1890s. The issues which this book explores are central to an understanding of the development of the twentieth century Conservative party, the emergence of a 'national' political culture, and the problems, both organisational and ideological, of a sustained period of coalition in the British parliamentary system.

Author : Peter J. Burnell,Alan Ware
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : 0719050332

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Funding Democratization by Peter J. Burnell,Alan Ware Pdf

Comprises 11 contributions exploring issues in the political finances of emerging democracies. The contributors look at funding issues in Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and the regions of east Asia and east-central Europe. Several contributors also explore what can be learned from the history of political finance in the established democracies of western Europe and North America. Of interest to students of political parties, electoral politics and democratization studies, as well as researchers and specialist observers of the countries and systems covered. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Allan Ware
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351518284

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Funding Democratization by Allan Ware Pdf

Democracy is a fine political system, but an expensive economic venture. Political parties and election campaigns cost money. Where does the money come from and at what sacrifice? Issues connected with political finance are significant but often neglected aspects of the process of democratization. Funding Democratization examines how money and politics interact in emerging democracies. The contributors investigate the funding of political parties in early North America, financial uncertainties of party formation in European countries, funding of democratization in new democracies, and the influence of funding on contenders for power. They also address the nature of political competition in countries that are seeking to embrace, often for the first time, the rules of democracy. They question in what ways politicians can help make democracy affordable. The volume compares important democratizing countries, such as Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Spain, and the regions of East Asia and East/Central Europe. It also investigates the lessons that emerging democracies can learn from the history of political finance in today's more established democracies. Funding Democratization will be of interest to political scientists and specialists in international social and political development.

Author : Simon During
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823242542

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Against Democracy:Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations by Simon During Pdf

This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow.

Author : David L. Blaney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003857754

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Political Economy as Theodicy by David L. Blaney Pdf

Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole. This book revisits the work of key figures in the history of political economy and economic thought – primarily Adam Smith, Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, W. Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall and John Bates Clark. Theodicy is a constitutive element of an international political economy (IPE) that often disavows moral evil, while it conversely redefines such evil as an actual good within economic life. Beginning with the Enlightenment thinkers and continuing through to the modern neoclasscial economists, this book traces the initial emergence of a natural theological basis for political economic thinking and concludes with a discussion of its application in modern IPE. Relying upon a postcolonial framework, the author seeks to provincialize economics, creating space for alternative modes of being and doing. This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of IPE, political theology, international relations and postcolonial studies.

Author : I. Cawood,C. Upton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137528858

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Joseph Chamberlain by I. Cawood,C. Upton Pdf

Winston Churchill described Joseph Chamberlain as 'the man who made the weather' for twenty years in British politics between the 1880s and the 1900s. This volume contains contributions on every aspect of Chamberlain's career, including international and cultural perspectives hitherto ignored by his many biographers. It breaks his career into three aspects: his career as an international statesman, defender of British interests and champion of imperial federation; his role as a national leader, opposing Gladstone's crusade for Irish home rule by forming an alliance with the Conservatives, campaigning for social reform and finally advocating a protectionist economic policy to promote British business; and the aspect for which he is still celebrated in his adopted city, as the provider of sanitation, gas lighting, clean water and cultural achievement for Birmingham – a model of civic regeneration that still inspires modern politicians such as Michael Heseltine, Tristram Hunt and David Willetts.

Author : Kirsten MacLeod
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504004

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Fictions of British Decadence by Kirsten MacLeod Pdf

Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015078261909

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Best Books Incorporated
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : PSU:000050810161

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The Best Books for Academic Libraries: World history by Anonim Pdf

Books recommended for undergraduate and college libraries listed by Library of Congress Classification Numbers.

Author : Jon Lawrence,Miles Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038609247

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Party, State and Society by Jon Lawrence,Miles Taylor Pdf

Essays offering new interpretations of electoral behaviour and political parties in 19th and 20th century Britain