Asquith
1st Edition
Published on 22. April 2013
588 pages
978-1-4482-1132-6 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1964, Asquith was one of the most crucial and controversial of modern Prime Ministers. He was opposed with a bitterness and a violence that English politicians have not subsequently known, yet he enjoyed eight and a half years of unbroken power, and for at least the first six years of these he presided with an easy authority over the most talented government of this century. The issues which he confronted were momentous - Peers v. People, Ireland, and the Great War. Bringing to bear exceptional knowledge, judgement, insight and tolerance, he survived them all. His fall seemed therefore all the more shocking.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-1132-6 (9781448211326)
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Person
Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Roy Jenkins (B: 1920) served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latter's death, a position he held until his own death in 2003. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins was from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- I From Yorkshire to Balliol 1862-75
- II A Struggling Barrister 1875-86
- III A Sure Thrust to Fame 1886-90
- IV A Wider Stage 1890-92
- V Mr. Gladstone's Home Secretary 1892-4
- VI A New Wife and a Dying Goverment 1894-5
- VII Out of Office 1895-1902
- VIII A Dismal Opposition 1895-9
- IX Liberal Imperialism and the Boer War 1899-1902
- X The Opposition Revived 1902-5
- XI The Radical Dawn 1905-6
- XII Crown Prince 1906-8
- XIII An Assured Succession 1908
- XIV A Trial of Statesmanship I 1909-310
- XV A Trial of Statesmanship II 1910-11
- XVI Strange Ailments of Liberal England 1911-13
- XVII A Prime Minister's Routine 1912-14
- XVIII The Irish Imbroglio I 1912-13
- XIX The Irish Imbroglio II 1914
- XX The Plunge to War 1914
- XXI A Prime Minister and His Colleagues 1914-15
- XXII From Liberalism to Coalition 1915
- XXIII A Troubled Government 1915
- XXIV Compulsion in England and Rebellion in Ireland 1916
- XXV A Declining Authority 1916
- XXVI A Palace Revolution I 1916
- XXVII A Palace Revolution II 1916
- XXVIII The Last of the Romans 1917-19
- XXIX The Old Chief Returns 1920-24
- XXX The Last Phase 1924-8
- References
- Appendices
- Footnotes
- A Note on the Author
- Also by the Author
- Imprint
