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The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations

George Dangerfield

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#2438 of 3,809 books · #808 in History

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1976).

At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the ills that inflicted so many other countries. After a resounding electoral triumph in 1906, the Liberals formed the government of the most powerful nation on earth, yet within a few years the House of Lords lost its absolute veto over legislation, the Home Rule crisis brought Ireland to the brink of civil war and led to an army mutiny, the campaign for woman's suffrage created widespread civil disorder and discredited the legal and penal systems, and an unprecedented wave of strikes swept the land. This is a classic account of the dramatic upheaval and political change that overwhelmed England in the period 1910-1914. As a portrait of England enmeshed in the turbulence of new movements, which often led to violence against the pieties of Liberal England—until it was overwhelmed by the greatest violence of all, World War I—this book examines a transformative moment in English history.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-13
9780804729307
Genre
History
Topics
Anglo-Irish relationsHome Rule crisisEarly 20th century British politics

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