The Liberal Pro-Boers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10068157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John W Auld (California State University, Dominguez Hills, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 78-101 |
| Publication date | 1975-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of British Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/385672 |
| OpenAlex | W2092623226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 10 |
The British Liberal Party underwent a succession of crises in the years 1886-1905 which nearly destroyed it as a coherent political entity. Perhaps the most critical divisions in the 1890s were those concerning the leadership struggle, so well described by Peter Stansky in his Ambitions and Strategies , and the search for a domestic policy which would qualify the party as the major force for reform in the face of the emerging Labour alternative. But both of these problems and the divisions which stemmed from them were linked with the perennial and highly visible divisions over foreign and imperial policy. Stansky has shown how the imperial question was tied to the Harcourt-Rosebery struggle for the leadership in succession to Gladstone and how concentration on this issue detracted from attention to the more pressing question of finding a viable and attractive domestic program. Jeffrey Butler, Bernard Semmel, and Bernard Porter have illustrated other aspects of the problem of imperial policy. Historians have long recognized the seriousness of the crisis in the party during the Boer War, when divisions of opinion concerning the war and general imperial policy were formalized in competing organizations, and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman fought a frustrating campaign to consolidate his leadership and maintain the party as a functioning unit. Most of the attention, however, has centered on the leaders of the party and on the organization — the Liberal League, which grew out of the Imperial Liberal Council in 1902 — which represented the Liberal Imperialist wing inspired by Lord Rosebery
Economic history · Foreign policy · League · Liberal Party · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Seriousness · Sociology · Australian History and Society · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2022 (42) |
| Highly cited | No |