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The Impact of Labour 1920-1924: The Beginning of Modern British Politics
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The Impact of Labour 1920-1924: The Beginning of Modern British Politics Hardcover - 1971

by Maurice Cowling


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Modern British politics begins with the Labour victory at the Spen Valley by-election in early 1920. In the next four years, the challenge presented by its arrival as a major electoral force enabled the Conservative leaders to destroy the Coalition, the Liberal Party, and Lloyd George, to triumph as guardians of the social order under Baldwin at the General Election of 1924 and to establish the Labour-Conservative polarisation in the form which has persisted since. This conclusion emerges from Mr Cowling's detailed study of the high politics of these years, in which the various attempts to end and replace the Coalition are shown to have hinged on 'resistance to socialism'. This book is primarily an account of the initiatives of politicians and their reactions to one another. Mr Cowling's book is unique in the sources used; it is also the only study of this period to examine all three political parties in detail.

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'The whole body of employers and the State, acting through Parliament, could do much to create the right spirit in the mind of Labour by understanding clearly that Labour would not long remain as a submissive victim to any system which it considered to be unfair.

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  • Title The Impact of Labour 1920-1924: The Beginning of Modern British Politics
  • Author Maurice Cowling
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 582
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date April 2, 1971
  • ISBN 9780521079693 / 0521079691
  • Weight 1.92 lbs (0.87 kg)
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Politics and government -, Coalition governments - Great Britain -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 73127236
  • Dewey Decimal Code 329.942
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