George Dangerfield

Biographic Data

ID682433
NAMEGeorge Dangerfield
GIVEN NAMESGeorge
FAMILY NAMEDangerfield
SIGNATUREDANGERFIELD G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1952
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Hubris 1911-1913

    George DangerfieldCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2018

  • Their Lordships Die in the Dark

    George DangerfieldCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2018

  • Mutiny at the Curragh

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    At the opening of Parliament on February 10, Sir Edward Carson and Mr. Law and the whole Tory opposition assumed an air of scarcely concealed triumph. In Parliament, the Opposition leaders altered their tone; they knew that their position was immeasurably stronger than it had been, and for a while they became almost friendly. Mr. Lloyd George hit upon an ingenious idea. Let every Ulster county be given the right to contract out of the Act for a s…

  • The Comet

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    The Right Honorable Herbert Henry Asquith had put in at Lisbon to dine with King Manoel of Portugal, and his reception in this pre carious capital had been very gratifying. Upon the chill and vacant twilight blazed Halley’s Comet–which, visiting the European heavens but once in a century, had arrived with appalling promptness to blaze forth the death of a king. In London, darkness was gradually relinquishing the bleak facade of the dead king’s pa…

  • The Workers’ Rebellion

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    Society in the pre-war years grew wildly plutocratic; the middle classes became more complacent and dependent; only the workers seemed to be deprived of their share in prosperity. A capitalist might understand, and even condone, the concentration against him of foreign capital, but under the circumstances he could only feel extremely uneasy about any sign of agitation among the workers, from whose labors, between 1900 and 1910, he had realized a …

  • The Pankhursts Provide a Clew

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    The observer was H. W. Nevinson and the young lady was Sylvia Pankhurst. Woman would hardly refrain from evolving because the Pankhursts were no longer a united family: on the contrary, she would probably continue the process at a dizzier speed. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst herself lingered, unobserved, until the Wellington Gates were opened to admit police reinforcements; then she slipped through with a number of spectators, made her way to the very …

  • Buckingham Palace to Bachelor’s Walk

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    To the Tories George V was a “cipher”; to the Liberals a “kind of second-lieutenant to Bonar Law.” During the Curragh mutiny, both sides had accused him of favoring the other; the back-stairs of Buckingham Palace had been freely populated by rumor with seditious generals and whispering Nationalists; his movements had been questioned in Parliament. At last, in Bachelor’s Walk, Major Haig ordered his bruised rearguard to block the narrow road; and …

  • Their Lordships Die in the Dark

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    With the passing of the Budget and the death of King Edward, the battle with the House of Lords moved out into the open. After King Lloyd George’s accession, one ray of hope lit up the general disillusion. Prompted by Mr. Asquith, therefore, King George proposed an armistice, in which the leaders of both parties should get together and compose their differences in quiet discussion. King George was face to face with the crisis which had so darkene…

  • The Liberals 1906-1910

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    The England upon which Mr. Asquith landed in May, 1910, was in a very peculiar condition. In its political aspect, the House of Lords was extremely conservative, quite stupid, immensely powerful, and a determined enemy of the Liberal Party. In its political aspect, the House of Lords was extremely conservative, quite stupid, immensely powerful, and a determined enemy of the Liberal Party. With the election of fifty-three Labor representatives, th…

  • The Guns of Larne

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    Major M.P. Colonel Crawford was an Orange fanatic, who had signed the Covenant in his own blood, and had long been an active gun-runner. He had to admit to himself that the game was up: the guns must be landed without any more ado. It was in vain that Mr. Winston Churchill characterized a Tory motion for an inquiry into the Curragh mutiny as “audacious,” and “impudent,” “like a vote of censure by the criminal classes on the police”: the time for …

  • The Tory Rebellion

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    The Tory Party, in the course of absorbing the doubtful or angry Liberal, had acquired another alias–it was also the Unionist Party. If Parliament utterly changed its character before the pre-war, and threatened to destroy itself by putting off those decencies which had hitherto preserved it from complete reality–that was due to Tory violence and Liberal weakness. The really sinister intentions of the Tory Party revealed themselves on January 26,…

  • Epilogue

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    In Georgian Poetry, 1911-1912, the work of Rupert Brooke provoked particular comment. Brooke’s poetry was sufficiently eager to appear new, but its best effects had already been anticipated and surpassed; it was born old-fashioned. But to the examiner of pre-war England, its youngest poetry is full of meaning. Nor is it surprising that at Cambridge, “whose cloisters have ever been consecrated to poetry,” he should have become a poetical socialist…

  • “Animula Vagula…”

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    English biography adroitly stops in 1910 and starts again in 1914. It was in the years 1910-1914 that highly moral, that generous, that dyspeptic, that utterly indefinable organism known as the Liberal Party died the death. To reduce the Liberal Party to a definition would be like attempting to reduce the glandular contours of a circus Fat Lady by simply talking her thin. The Cyril Asquith Cabinet was very far from being the democratic group whic…

  • The Triple Alliance

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    A part from a serious coal strike, in Rotherham, in the V spring of 1914, when 15,000 men came out over the district minimum wage, the workers of England, from January to July, presented an appearance of deceptive calm. Exactly the same thing had happened in 1913; and the conclusion of the irritated succession of minor stoppages–whether it was the Dublin Transport Strike or the formation of the Triple Alliance–was anything but reassuring. Certain…

  • Sarajevo

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    A prey to excitement and to lethargy, frivolous, flaccid, it resembled, in 1914, a man who is approaching a nervous breakdown; it turned towards everything but reality. It is not to be supposed, therefore, that the manoeuvres of Mr. John Redmond excited any attention whatsoever. The question at issue was whether the Provisional Committee of twenty-six, controlled by Eoin MacNeill and Casement, should suffer the addition of twenty-five members, al…

  • The Women’s Rebellion

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandCHAPTERStrange Death of Liberal England2017

    The majority of pre-war women lived, clung to their respectable and moribund security, and dreaded even the limited independence which the Vote would assure them. For the Women’s Rebellion–the outrageous Suffragette Movement of 1910-1914–was above all a thing a movement from darkness into light, and from death into life; and, like the Tory Rebellion, its unconscious motive was the rejection of a moribund, a respectable, and a smothering security.…

  • The Strange Death of Liberal England: 1910-1914

    George Dangerfield, David MarslandBOOKStrange Death of Liberal England2017Cited by: 40

    This book focuses on the chaos that overtook England on the eve of the First World War. Dangerfield weaves together the three wild strands of the Irish Rebellion (the rebellion in Ulster), the Suffragette Movement and the Labour Movement to produce a vital picture of the state of mind and the most pressing social problems in England at the time. The country was preparing even then for its entrance into the twentieth century and total war.Dangerfi…

  • For God and/or Reason

    George Dangerfield, Pauline MaierARTICLEReviews in American History1981

  • The American Quest, 1790-1860: An Emerging Nation in Search of Identity, Unity, and Modernity, by Clinton Rossiter

    Open AccessGeorge DangerfieldARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1973

  • The Last Liberal Governments: The Promised Land, 1905-1910, by Peter Rowland ; Land Fit for Heroes: The Planning of British Reconstruction, 1916-1919, by Paul Barton Johnson

    Open AccessGeorge DangerfieldARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1971

  • The Downfall of the Liberal Party: 1914-1935, By Trevor Wilson

    Open AccessGeorge DangerfieldARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1968

  • The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828

    Shaw Livermore, George DangerfieldARTICLEJournal of American History1966

    Journal Article The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1813–1828. By George Dangerfield. (New York: Harper & Row, 1965. xiii + 331 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $6.00.) Get access Shaw Livermore, Jr. Shaw Livermore, Jr. University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 3, December 1966, Pages 594–596, https://doi.org/10.…

  • The Old Republicans: Southern Conservatism in the Age of Jefferson

    George Dangerfield, Norman K RisjordARTICLEJournal of American History1966

    Journal Article The Old Republicans: Southern Conservatism in the Age of Jefferson. By Norman K. Risjord. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. 340 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $7.95.) Get access George Dangerfield George Dangerfield Santa Barbara, Calif. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 4, March 1966, Pages 820–821, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894359 …

  • The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828

    Alexander Deconde, George DangerfieldARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1965

  • Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823

    George Dangerfield, Bradford PerkinsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1965