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The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914
The Strange Death of Liberal England 19101914 Author:George Dangerfield An extremely well known and well written book on the fantastic chaos which overtook England on the eve of the First World War. Dangerfield (who won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1953) has woven together three wild strands of Tory Rebellion (the rebellion in Ulster), the suffragette movement, and the labor movement and has produced a living vit... more »al picture of the state of mind and the most pressing social problems in England which was even then preparing for its real entrance into the twentieth century and total war. Teeming with magnificently written accounts of such fanatically dedicated people as Sir Edward Carson, Emmeline Pankhurst and her two wild daughters, and Jim Larken and the rest of the labor people, The Strange Death of Liberal England is not only a great work of social history; it is also a classic study of how cruelly outmoded the famous Liberal Party of England was in the modern age. Reprinted from the 1935 edition.« less