The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics and Ideology of the Conservative Party, 1880-1914

by Green,E.H.H.

• ISBN13: 9780415143394
• ISBN10: 041514339X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-09-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Crisis of Conservatismoffers a new interpretation of Conservative politics in the period 1880--1914 and comes to the startling conclusion that, but for the intervention of the First World War, there may well have been a "Strange Death of Tory England."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
List of abbreviations	xii
INTRODUCTION	1	(26)
Part I Questions of decline
1 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DECLINE	27	(32)
Part II The nature of the political problem
2 CONSERVATISM AND THE EMPIRE	59	(19)
3 CONSERVATISM AND THE PROPERTIED	78	(42)
4 CONSERVATISM AND THE PROPERTYLESS	120	(39)
Part III The nature of the response
5 INTELLECTUAL PRELUDE	159	(25)
6 THE ECONOMICS OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION	184	(10)
7 IMPERIAL ORGANIZATION	194	(13)
8 THE DEFENCE OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE	207	(16)
9 THE DEFENCE OF BRITISH INDUSTRY	223	(19)
10 SOCIAL REFORM	242	(25)
Part IV Disintegration
11 DISINTEGRATION	267	(40)
CONCLUSION	307	(27)
APPENDIX 1: Conservative MPs supporting fair trade in the 1880s	334	(1)
APPENDIX 2: Conservative representatives of middle- and mixed-class London and South-East Suburban seats	335	(4)
APPENDIX 3: Members of the Compatriots' Club	339	(2)
APPENDIX 4: Members of the Unionist Social Reform Committee	341	(2)
Notes	343	(60)
Bibliography	403	(2)
Index	405