Liberals and armaments 1900 -1918

Authors :: David Singeisen
University of Exeter
Source :: Mémoire(s), identité(s), marginalité(s) dans le monde occidental contemporain. Cahiers du MIMMOC, Mémoire(s), identité(s), marginalité(s) dans le monde occidental contemporain. Cahiers du MIMMOC, Université de Poitiers ; MIMMOC, 2011, Le parti libéral au Royaume-Uni hier et aujourd’hui : aux marges ou au centre ?, ⟨10.4000/mimmoc.734⟩, Cahiers du MIMMOC, Iss 7 (2011), Cahiers du MIMMOC, Vol 7 (2011)
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: OpenEdition, 2011.
Abstract: The Liberal Party won the 1906 general election by a landslide. They did so, in part, officially supporting a policy of peaceful foreign and imperial policy, coupled with a reduction in armaments. Eight years later that same Liberal Government, comprising several of the same figures that had been there in 1906, not only introduced the largest Naval Estimates yet seen, but took Great Britain into a major European war. Why did they do this?From 1868 to 1894 the Liberal Party was dominated by on...

ISSN :: 19516789
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Mémoire(s), identité(s), marginalité(s) dans le monde occidental contemporain
Accession number :: edsair.doi.dedup.....147206f8c9e0435f96ea58bdf28feedf
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.4000/mimmoc.734