George Joachim Goschen
The Transformation of a Victorian Liberal
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Part of Conference on British Studies Biographical Series
- Author: Thomas J. Spinner, Jr, University of Vermont
- Date Published: October 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521089104
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The career of George Joachim Goschen, the man whom Lord Randolph Churchill forgot, illuminates many of the problems faced by the British ruling classes in the late nineteenth century: a Liberal in 1863, Goschen entered the twentieth century a Conservative. In examining his life and career, Professor Spinner shows how this transition took place and how it typified the reaction of many Victorian statesmen to the massive social and economic changes of the period. The son of a German immigrant merchant banker, thoroughly Anglicized by Rugby and Oxford, Goschen had no difficulty in rising to the highest positions of political and economic power. Elected to the Commons in 1863, he served successively in Lord Russell's Cabinet and at the Poor Law Board and the Admiralty during Gladstone's first Ministry.
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- Date Published: October 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521089104
- length: 276 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Rugby, Oxford - and Ambalema
2. The 'Fortunate Youth' enters politics
3. Paupers and admirals 1868–1874
4. Egypt and electoral reform
5. Diplomacy and harem ladies 1880–1881
6. The 'Moderate' Liberals 1881–1885
7. The Irish Nationalists and the election of 1885
8. Her Majesty aids the Opposition
9. Budgets, gold and the Conservative leadership
10. Imperialism, Ireland and personal finance
11. The 'Fifth Wheel' returns to the Admiralty
12. Foreign affairs, Boers and retirement
13. 'Joe' again 1900–1907.
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