The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain

The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain
Author: Jonathan Parry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 383
Release: 1996-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300067187

Between 1830 and 1886, Liberals dominated British politics. Focusing on the strategies of successive Liberal leaders, this study gives an overview of that dominance and argues that liberalism was a much more coherent force than has generally been recognized by historians.

Newspapers and Nationalism

Newspapers and Nationalism
Author: Marie-Louise Legg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book places the provincial press in context and provides information about the newspapers themselves, the people who ran them, and the people who read them.

Corruption and Reform

Corruption and Reform
Author: Edward L. Glaeser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226299597

Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world’s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today’s most corrupt developing nations, as municipal governments and robber barons alike found new ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. In Corruption and Reform, contributors explore this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption worldwide today. Contributors to this volume address the measurement and consequences of fraud and corruption and the forces that ultimately led to their decline within the United States. They show that various approaches to reducing corruption have met with success, such as deregulation, particularly “free banking,” in the 1830s. In the 1930s, corruption was kept in check when new federal bureaucracies replaced local administrations in doling out relief. Another deterrent to corruption was the independent press, which kept a watchful eye over government and business. These and other facets of American history analyzed in this volume make it indispensable as background for anyone interested in corruption today.

The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party

The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party
Author: Michael F. Holt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1298
Release: 2003-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199830894

Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay--struggled for control as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events--like the Annexation of Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act--rocked the country. Amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, emerging as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession.

The Rise and Fall of the British Press

The Rise and Fall of the British Press
Author: Michael Temple
Publisher: Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: British newspapers
ISBN: 9781138895102

The Rise and Fall of The British Press present a clinical and provocative overview at the past, present and immediate future of the printed newspaper. Mick Taylor appraises the historic and ongoing contribution of the UK press to the public sphere, with assessment of the relationship between the specific historical periods and the role of newspapers in illuminating and informing the public perception and opinion. Analysis is informed by charting the development and impact of competing media forms and new technologies, with parallels being drawn between contemporary issues and developments in both the press and wider society.

The English Press

The English Press
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2019-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472524918

In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, Jeremy Black traces the medium's history from the emergence of the country's newspaper industry to the Internet age. The English Press focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic and technological. Black takes the reader through a chronological sequence of chapters, with a final chapter exploring possible scenarios for the future of print media. He investigates whether we are witnessing the demise or simply a crisis of the press in the aftermath of the News of the World scandal and Levinson Inquiry. A new title by one of the most eminent historians of Britain and a leading expert on the history of the press, The English Press will appeal to undergraduate students of British and media history and journalism, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the history of England and the media.

Liberalism and Empire

Liberalism and Empire
Author: Uday Singh Mehta
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2018-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 022651918X

We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals manifested a narrow conception of human experience and ways of being in the world. Ironically, it is in the conservative Edmund Burke—a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion—that Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, Liberalism and Empire reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated.

The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction

The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction
Author: Samuel Saunders
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429671024

This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst ‘detective fiction’ is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly narratives of the genre’s evolution neglect to connect it with the development of a free press. The volume traces how police officers, detectives, criminals, and the criminal justice system were discussed in the pages of a variety of magazines and journals, and argues that this affected how the wider nineteenth-century society perceived organised law enforcement and detection. This, in turn, helped to shape detective fiction into the genre that we recognise today. The book also explores how periodicals and newspapers contained forgotten, non-canonical examples of ‘detective fiction’, and that these texts can help complicate the narrative of the genre’s evolution across the mid- to late nineteenth century.