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Laddar... The origins of the Lloyd George coalition : the politics of social-imperialism, 1900-1918av Robert J. Scally
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The book suffers from poor editing, an inadequate index, and a bibliography that lumps together as "contemporary sources" partisan tracts, interpretive journalism, retrospective memoirs, and authorized biographies. It is too prolix, repeats ideas and quotations several times, and contains unnecessary errors.
This book examines the intrusion of imperialist modes of thought into the domestic politics of the Edwardian period and the war years. The author analyzes the fusion of social-imperialist ideology with the Lloyd George insurgency in the Liberal Party and reinforces the hypothesis that European imperialism in this era aligned itself with progressive Liberalism to form the chief defense against rising democratic and socialist forces. Major events of the war years such as the collapse of the Liberal Party and the dispute over war aims are shown to be the products of the continuing conflict between these forces rather than merely the result of the circumstances of war. The author describes the development of the body of social-imperialist ideas and strategies between the Boer War and the formation of the Lloyd George Coalition of 1916. The political course of the Coalition idea is traced past the crisis of 1910 into the war years and the debate over plans for reconstruction. Thus, the Coalition of 1916 is seen mainly as an outgrowth of the prewar political crisis--a device originally designed as a response to domestic issues and adapted only later to the pressures of war. This original interpretation of the Coalition and its origins establishes the historical significance of social imperialism and places Lloyd George and the British right in new perspective. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Compulsion to publish, however, cannot excuse the numerous factual errors in this book, all avoidable by use of standard reference books. Scally has Harcourt (p.154) and Dawkins (159) still alive in 1910; believes that Harcourt was a peer and forced Rosebery's retirement before 1898 (31-32); identifies Albert Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada, as Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary (135); calls Sir E. Tennant Asquith's "son-in-law" and Alfred Lyttleton Balfour's "personal secretary"; he believes that the election of 1906 was held in 1905 (four cases on 113, 124), that P.H. Kerr (Lord Lothian) was "a young Conservative" (349), that R.H. Brand and Fred Perky were Canadians (355), that Bonar Law replaced Churchill at the Admiralty in 1915 (255), and that Milner's "bitter personal resentment against Parliament" for censuring him in March 1906 was expressed in a letter written to Parkins in July 1905 (107). There are several other errors of dates (223,227,228,254), and the index is worthless, listing only names but omitting three-quarters of those mentioned and only about half the cases of those listed.