The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain

by Jonathan Parry

Book Overview

After a review of the origins of Liberalism before 1830, Parry examines in turn the strategies of successive Liberal leaders from Grey to Gladstone and Hartington. Parry argues that nineteenth-century Liberalism tried to maintain the rule of a propertied but socially diverse, rational, and civilized elite, in the belief that this was the best means to administer the state economically and equitably and to promote an industrious and virtuous citizenship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300067186
• ISBN13: 9780300067187
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"