British Politics, Society and Empire, 1852-1945: Essays in Honour of Trevor O. Lloyd

by David W. Gutzke (Editor)

Overview

This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s. With Lloyd best known for his two histories of the Empire and of domestic Britain, published in the Short Oxford History of the Modern World series, as well as his pioneering psephological study of the 1880 General Election, the essays include analyses of Anglo-Irish relations, Florence Nightingale, Canada, muckrackers, the Primrose League and prisoners of war during World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315387123
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/21/2017
Series:	Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David W. Gutzke is Professor of Modern British History at Missouri State University, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Trevor O. Lloyd as Teacher, Scholar, Mentor and Friend

David W. Gutzke

2. Introduction

David W. Gutzke

3. A Party for "Peers and Parsons?" The Social Composition of the Irish Conservative Party and Its Electoral Consequences, 1852-68

Andrew Shields

4. Florence Nightingale Reconsidered as the Founder of Modern Nursing

Carol Helmstadter

5. Britain, Muckraking and Transnational Exchanges

David W. Gutzke

6. Politics and the Social Sphere: The Primrose League during the First World War Matthew Hendley
7. Baldwin’s Empire: Canada 1927

Gabrielle Ward-Smith

8. Experiences of British Prisoners of War in the Far East: Death and Their Relatives at Home from 1942

Patricia Jalland

Trevor O. Lloyd: A Bibliography