{"id":95,"date":"2024-07-02T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/politicalhistory\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2024-08-23T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:24:20","slug":"subject-essays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Subject Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-6d3fbd8f wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-126 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/the-british-world-and-the-politics-of-empire\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u2018The British World\u2019 and the politics of empire<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The so-called \u2018British World\u2019 is a significant concept and topic of controversy in British imperial history. In its divisiveness, it also sheds new light on the political dynamics of empire&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-144 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/beyond-westminster-politics-in-scotland-and-wales\/\" target=\"_self\" >Beyond Westminster: politics in Scotland and Wales<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay is an introduction to politics in nineteenth-century Scotland and Wales. It surveys major electoral trends and political questions, exploring the reasons for the Liberal party\u2019s dominance. It also&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-151 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/britain-and-europe-1789-1914-diplomacy-and-rivalry\/\" target=\"_self\" >Britain and Europe, 1789\u20131914: diplomacy and rivalry<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay argues that Britain was generally a conservative force in European diplomacy even while regarding itself as a more liberal polity than any of the other states. It did&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-146 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/british-politics-in-transnational-perspective\/\" target=\"_self\" >British politics in transnational perspective<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Historians have always known that nineteenth-century British politics was shaped by forces which worked across national boundaries. But there has been relatively little reflection on the wider interpretative consequences of&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-154 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/conservatism-and-liberalism\/\" target=\"_self\" >Conservatism and Liberalism<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">It is noteworthy just how often the nineteenth century is still seen as the Liberal century. While this period may have marked the \u2018golden age of Liberalism\u2019 in the mid-Victorian&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-156 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/corruption-and-the-morality-of-public-life\/\" target=\"_self\" >Corruption and the morality of public life<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay provides an overview of the ways corruption featured in British politics from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth. It does so by examining three core areas&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-142 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/free-trade-or-protection-the-political-economy-of-britain-c-1780-1914\/\" target=\"_self\" >Free trade or protection: the political economy of Britain, c. 1780\u20131914<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Smith\u2019s Wealth of Nations (1776) expounded a clear choice between policies of free trade, which liberalised the economy, emphasising the market and consumer choice, and mercantilism (later protectionism), which looked&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-138 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/monarchs-cabinets-and-prime-ministers-1780-1914\/\" target=\"_self\" >Monarchs, Cabinets and prime ministers, 1780\u20131914<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In the eighteenth century, kings expected to govern as well as to reign \u2013 to be active participants in the business of government and policymaking. By the early twentieth century,&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-160 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/the-irish-question-and-british-politics-c-1800-1914\/\" target=\"_self\" >The Irish question and British politics, c. 1800\u20131914<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay argues that the Irish question proved a dominant problem in British politics across the long nineteenth century. It charts this process by focusing on the ways that the&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-158 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-essays\/the-politics-of-labour-socialism-and-trade-unionism\/\" target=\"_self\" >The politics of labour: socialism and trade unionism<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay gives an overview of the trade union, socialist, and political labour movements in Britain from 1848 to 1914, focusing in particular on the ideas, movements, and organisations that&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}