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Crisis of Empire: The Great Britain during Joseph Chamberlaine at the Turn of 19th and 20th Century
Šotolová, Tereza ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Kučera, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the person of Joseph Chamberlain, significant radical politician of the second half of 19th Century and early 20th Century. Main task of this thesis is find out, which events formed his political development from the supporter of free trade to strict protagonist of Tariff Reform and which factors led to the failure to his tariff reform campaign. On the basis of studying especially foreign, british, literature and academic articles, I analysis the topic fixed by this bachelor thesis. The campaign for gain support to tariff reform and economic protectionism was most pronounced at the turn of 19th and 20th Century and caused a dispute in the government and also in ruling coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Unionist. A failure of this campaign was at the end of political career one of the most influental politician of viktorian age. In tariff reform he saw an opportunity how could the government financed advanced social reform and esecially chance to strengthen bounds between colonies and the mother land. He trusted that the economic ties are the most infliental ties of basis imperial federation. Joseph Chamberlain was a radical imperialist and an imperial factor was affected in all his political decisions. His political life takes place in age, when the British...
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Prevalence of Etatism in the 20th-Century Great Britain
Erva, Martin ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Tajovský, Ladislav (referee) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
The United Kingdom is imprinted in our historical memory as the birthplace of modern democracy, the rule of law and respect to private ownership. However, this memory reflects deep history of the 19th century rather than the present state of affairs. The English like other developed nations have acquired the policy of state interventions, nationalization of private enterprise for a compensation, fight against the economic cycle in an unprecedented consensus. Many of the contemporaries assess England through the prism of Margaret Thatcher, however, as demonstrated in this work, her right-winged policy proved an exception to the Conservative Party's rule. Historiography ascribes the reasons of the situation especially to the Labour Party. A number of history works limits the causality of the state growth to the onset of the Laborites. It is apparent, however, that the search for the reasons of the state of affairs needs to quest much deeper in history. Despite its name, the Liberal Party is an institution with a long tradition of state-positive thinking. It was the new Radical Liberals who arrived with a "ransom" theory as well as the program of urban socialism, which does not seem to be a symptom of the laissez faire era in the today's regulated world of private waterworks, gas and electric power...
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