TY - BOOK AU - Bebbington,David AU - Swift,Roger TI - Gladstone centenary essays T2 - Liverpool Latin American Studies SN - 9781846313202 AV - DA563.4 .G519 2000eb U1 - 941.081/092B 22 PY - 2000/// CY - Liverpool PB - Liverpool University Press KW - Gladstone, W. E. KW - Prime ministers KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - HISTORY KW - bisacsh KW - Politics and government KW - fast KW - Politieke activiteit KW - gtt KW - 1837-1901 KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Electronic books KW - Biographies KW - gtlm KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Title Page; Contents; Contributors; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Gladstone, Chalmers and the Disruption of the Church of Scotland; 'The Strict Line of Political Succession'? Gladstone's Relationship with Peel: An Apt Pupil?; Gladstone and Homer; Gladstone and Parliamentary Reform; Gladstone, Liberalism and the Government of 1868-1874; Gladstone and Cobden; Networking through Sound Establishments: How Gladstone Could Make Dissenting Sense; Gladstone and Irish Nationalism: Achievement and Reputation N2 - W.E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for four separate terms. In 1998 an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death, and many of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume. Covering the whole of the statesman?s long political life from the first Reform Act to the la UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=242411 ER -