A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001 by C Cook

A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001 by C Cook

This highly topical and authoritative history examines the changing fortunes of the Liberals from the landslide victory of 1906, through the divisions and decline of the interwar years, to the repeated revivals in the forty years after Orpington in 1962. This concise survey examines not only the electoral fortunes of the party (including detailed analysis of the June 2001 election) but also the personalities, policies and power base of the contemporary party in the changed political landscape of the new century. Although a book designed for students of history and politics, this timely volume will also be essential reading for journalists, political commentators and party activists; indeed all those interested in the Liberal Democrat performance in the 2001 election and their prospects as the new century unfolds.

'covers all the highs and lows with fairness and detail' - Stephen Brasher, New Statesman

CHRIS COOK was educated at St Catherine's College, Cambridge and Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been director of successive surveys by the Modern Archives Unit at the London School of Economics, as well as Head of History at what is now the University of North London. His many previous publications for Macmillan include the six-volume Sources in British Political History, 1900-51. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is also editor of the best-selling Pears Encyclopaedia. He has recently completed a new edition of A Dictionary of Historical Terms.

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ISBN 13	9780333918388
ISBN 10	033391838X
Title	A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001
Author	C Cook
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2002-02-27
Number of pages	288
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