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The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935
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By 1914 the Liberal Party had been governing Britain ever since its stunning general election victory of 1906. Four years later the Party was out of office, and so enfeebled it would never again form a government. What prompted the Liberal decline in the years of The Great War, and why did this decline then accelerate? Trevor Wilson's classic study analyses the strains exerted on Liberal principles by war, and the leadership crisis induced in 1916 by Lloyd George's ousting of Asquith.
'A good political mystery, and Mr Wilson has told it in fine dramatic style.' A.J.P. Taylor
'Offers portraits of those rivals, Asquith and Lloyd George, that are among the best - the most plausible and the most temperate - available.'
New Yorker
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- SOME REFLECTIONS FOR THE 1967 FONTANA EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION
- NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- Part One : THE LIBERAL PARTY ANDTHE WAR 1914โ1918
- Part Two : THE COUPON ELECTION NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1918
- Part Three : THE LIBERAL PARTY AND THE COALITION 1919โ1922
- Part Four : REVIVAL AND RELAPSE 1923โ1924
- Part Five : THE SEARCH FOR A SOLUTION 1925โ1935
- EPILOGUE
- Appendix I : LIBERALS AND GENERAL ELECTIONS 1914โ1935
- Appendix II : LIBERAL CHIEF WHIPS 1914โ1935
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Plates
- Copyright