Simon Maccoby. English Radicalism.

CONTENTS

1762-1785

THE ORIGINS

[Publicado en 1955]

PREFACE

I – “Wilkes and Liberty”, 1762-4

II – The King and Grenville, 1764-5

III – The Rockingham and Chatham Governments 53

IV – Chatham in Eclipse

V – Wilkes and his Supporters, 1768-9

VI – The Agitation Spreads

VII – The Opposition shoots its Bolt

VIII – Falkland Islands, Press, and “Patriot Magistrates”, 1770-1

IX – “Patriot” Dissensions, 1771-2

X – India and America, 1773-4

XI – From Bad to Worse in America, 1774-5

XII – American Independence declared

XIII – Saratoga and the War with France, 1777-8

XIV – Opposition refuses Coalition, 1778-9

XV – The Demand for “Public Oeconomy”, 1779-80

XVI – The Gordon Riots

XVII – The 1780 General Election and After

XVIII – The War grows Intolerable

XIX – Rockingham, Shelburne and Coalition, 1782-3

XX – The Fox-North Coalition and its India Bill, 1783

XXI – The “virtuous young Minister”, 1784

XXII – Pitt’sfirst two Sessions as Majority Premier

SPECIAL CHAPTERS

XXIII – Workmen and their Employers

XXIV – The Challenge to the Church

XXV – Opinion on Rent and Landlords

XXVI – Philanthropy in regard to the “Oppressed”

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 – Manuscript Sources

2 – Periodicals and Newspapers

3 – Some Representative Ministerial and Opposition Correspondence and Memoirs

4 – Some Works especially illustrative of Oppositionist or extreme Oppositionist Thought

5 – Radical Biography (by Contemporaries)

6 – Other Significant Works by Contemporaries

7 – Observers of the Contemporary Scene

8 – The Age’s works of Reference

9 The Period as treated by Historians

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1786-1832

FROM PAINE TO COBBETT

[Publicado en 1955]

PREFACE

Part One

I – Reform before and after 1789

II – Taking sides on the French Revolution, 1790

III – The “Republican” Societies

IV – The Revolutionary War opens, 1793-4

V – The War grows more burdensome, 1794-5

VI – Peace Overtures, 1795-7

VII – 1797-9 116

VIII – Buonaparte, First Consul

IX – Amiens, Before and After

X – The Napoleonic War begun

XI – The Passing of Pitt and Fox

XII – “Innovation” unsaddled, 1807

XIII – The Portland Government

XIV – The Agitations of 1808-10

XV – The Sessions of 1810 and 1811

XVI – Liverpool becomes Prime Minister, 1812

XVII – The Parliament of 1812 to Waterloo

XVIII – Post-War Distress and Discontent

XIX – Aftermath of Habeas Corpus Suspension, 1817-19

XX – The Six Acts and After, 1819-21

XXI – Castlereagh passes, Canning succeeds, 1821-5

XXII – The Politics of 1826-8

XXIII – Parliamentary Reform becomes inevitable, 1829-30

Part Two

XXIV – Religion

XXV – Revolutionary Thinking on Property, Population and the Family

XXVI – The Empire and India

XXVII – Some Trade Societies

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 – Manuscript and Special Sources

2 – Periodicals and Newspapers

3 – Some Secrecy Committee and other Reports

4 – Some State and other Trials

5 – Some Court, Ministerial and Opposition Biography and Correspondence

6 – Some Radical Biography

7 – Some Works especially illustrative orformative of Radical Thought

8 – A few other Contemporary Sources of Opinion ofsome representative Importance

9 – A few of the Age’s Sources of Parliamentary, Biographical and Topographical Information with afew Travellers’ Accounts and a Diary

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1832-1852

[Publicado en 1935]

Preface

Introduction: Origins of “Radical Reform,” 1768-1831

PART ONE

I – RADICALS AND THE REFORM BILL, 1831-2

II – THE CONSTITUTION OF 1832

III – ELECTION PLEDGES IN 1832

IV – THE REFORMED PARLIAMENT

V – CORN LAW, SINECURE, AND PENSION LIST GRIEVANCES

VI – END OF THE GREY GOVERNMENT

VII – POOR LAW AND MUNICIPAL REFORM

VIII – RADICALISM FAILS TO IMPOSE ITS PROGRAMME

IX – THE PEOPLE’S CHARTER AND THE NATIONAL PETITION

X – OASTLER, STEPHENS, AND FEARGUS O’CONNOR

XI – FAILURE OF THE CHARTIST CONVENTION OF 1839

XII – CHARTISM SURVIVES

XIII – PEEL’S ADVENT TO POWER

XIV – THE AGITATIONS OF 1842 AND 1843

XV – RADICALS AND GOVERNMENT POLICY, 1844-6

XVI – PARLIAMENTARY RADICALISM AN INCREASING FORCE

XVII – THE CONTINUED PRESSURE FOR INNOVATION, 1848

XVIII – THE PROTECTIONIST “REACTION” OVERCOME, 1849-52

XIX – SUFFRAGE, EDUCATION, AND NEWSPAPER TAXATION

XX – RELIGION, LANDOWNERSHIP, AND THE FAMILY

PART TWO

XXI – RADICALS AND THE EMPIRE

XXII – RADICALS AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

XXIII – RADICALISM AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

XXIV – THE WORLD OF LABOUR

XXV – THE NEWSPAPER PRESS

XXVI – RADICALISM’S SEARCH FOR LEADERSHIP AND PARTY ORGANISATION

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Appenoix A

Appenbix B

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1853-1886

[Publicado en 1938]

Preface

I – “ADVANCED” POLITICS IN 1853

II – THE CRIMEAN WAR, FIRST STAGE

III – RADICAL AGITATION GROWS DANGEROUS, 1855

IV – PALMERSTON HOLDS RADICALISM IN CHECK

V – DISTRACTIONS FROM REFORM, 1858-64

VI – THE REFORM LEAGUE AND THE REFORM UNION

VII – HOW PARLIAMENTARY REFORM WAS CARRIED, 1867-8

VIII – THE ADVANCE OF LABOUR

IX – RELIGION

X – POLITICAL “ADVANCE” IN 1869 AND 1870

XI – POLITICS GROW MORE AGITATED, 1870-1

XII – DECLINE AND FALL OF THE GLADSTONE GOVERNMENT

XIII – PARTY CONTROVERSY, 1874-6

XIV – THE EASTERN QUESTION, FIRST STAGE

XV – THE EASTERN QUESTION, BEACONSFIELD’S TRIUMPH

XVI – THE UNDERMINING OF “BEACONSFIELDISM”

XVII – IRELAND DELAYS “PROGRESS,” 1880-1

XVIII – THE SESSIONS OF 1882 AND 1883

XIX – THE STRUGGLE FOR PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, 1884

XX – APPROACH OF THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 1885

XXI – “LABOUR” AND THE BIRTH OF BRITISH SOCIALISM, 1874-86

SPECIAL CHAPTERS

XXII – RADICALS AND THE COLONIES, 1853-86

XXIII – RADICALS AND INDIA

XXIV – LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Appendix—Some Radical Difficulties on Foreign Policy

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1886-1914

[Publicado en 1953]

Preface

PART ONE

I – The Home Rule Controversy, 1886

II – “Irish Coercion” in 1887

III – The Opposition’s Growing Radicalism, 1888

IV – Mr. Parnell’s Day of Triumph, 1889

V – The Great Dock Strike

VI – The Downfall of Parnell

VII – Mr. Gladstone Returns to Downing Street

VIII – The Fourth Gladstone Government Begins

IX – Home Rule Rejected, 1893

X – Mr. Gladstone Departs

XI – The Rosebery Government, 1894-3

XII – The 1893 Elections and After

XIII – Lord Salisbury’s First Troubles, 1893-6

XIV – The Diamond Jubilee, Before and After

XV – Imperialism Gains Ground, 1898

XVI – Outbreak of the Boer War

XVII – The Boer War, First Year

XVIII – The War Drags On, 1901

XIX – End of the Boer War

XX – Rise of the Fiscal Controversy, 1903

XXI – 1904

XXII – Why Mr. Balfour Resigned

PART TWO

XXIII – Some “Labour” Questions

XXIV – Radicals and India

XXV – London

XXVI – Religion

XXVII – Epilogue, 1906-1914

Appendix

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THE END?

[Publicado en 1961]

Preface

BOOK ONE

Before the First World War

I – Before and After 1906

II – Lloyd George and the “People’s Budget”

III – The Years 1910 and 1911

IV – Political Controversy, 1912-13

V – “Progress” in 1914

BOOK TWO

The War Years, 1914-18

VI – Difficult War Years Begin

VII – How Coalition Came, 1913

VIII – Conscription

IX – Lloyd George Supplants Asquith

X – 1917

XI – The Winter of 1917-18

XII – Victory

BOOK THREE

Asquith and Lloyd George, 1918-26

XIII – The Coupon Parliament

XIV – 1920

XV – 1921

XVI – 1922

XVII – The Bonar Law Premiership

XVIII – The Labour Government of 1924

XIX – The 1924 Elections

XX – Baldwin, Samuel, and the General Strike

BOOK FOUR

The Last Radical Programmes of Lloyd George

XXI – After the General Strike

XXII – “The Liberal Revival”, 1927-8

XXIII – The 1929 Elections

XXIV – Labour’s Second Disaster

XXV – Decline and Fall of Free Trade

XXVI – Failure of the League of Nations

XXVII – Liberty Overseas

XXVIII – Living and Other Standards

EPILOGUE

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY