Britain in the 20th Century: Responses to Decline, 1895-1914

Britain in the 20th Century: Responses to Decline, 1895-1914 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

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13 жыл бұрын

It was during these years that British statesmen first came to appreciate that her international and economic position was under threat. The growth of German and American economic power exposed the fragility of Britain's hitherto unquestioned pre-eminence. Imperialism was the first response to decline, social reform the second. It was these years that saw the first stirrings of a new collectivism in the 'New Liberalism'.
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@BudFieldsPPTS 10 жыл бұрын

"We do not insure people against illness. We insure people against insecurity." Lloyd George

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight "Tell me a bit about yourself, then. What do you believe in?" I believe in compassion, our creativity, our natural rights and freedoms, I believe this planet is as much yours and mine as it is anyone else's, and I believe we need to start taking care of it instead of plundering it with reckless abandon because we wont get another. I believe in taking responsibility for what we do, and cleaning up our own yards instead of poking around in other people's. I believe in friendship

@zobielamouche1 8 жыл бұрын

the question that arises is not "why the decline" but "how could the english rise to such rulers over the world, from scotland to fiji"!

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight "I also believe that many races and peoples benefited from being ruled" Your neighbour might think your wife and children would benefit from him murdering you and enslaving them, and no doubt he will go on telling himself that, if he thinks like you that is. This is the example we have been setting for the world that you are so proud of. As I said, overblown pride leads to calousness.

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight "Our youngsters are taught to be ashamed of our history whereas we should be proud of it." Our own pride and shame are things we need to watch closely in ourselves because unchecked and over blown they lead to calousness and nihilism. I don't believe in indoctrination but in the freedom to explore our own creativity bounded only by the principle of consequence i.e. whatever we, do we should expect others to emulate. If you behave like an empire then expect the same back.

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight how much did our insitutions benefit the bolshevics we gassed during the Russian revolution?

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight PS, I'm not a communist, liberal, socialist, fascist, conservative or a totalitarian. The poverty of your assumptions says a great deal about how well educated you are. Maybe it's time you started expanding your knowledge once again instead of simply regurgitating the imperialist pieties you have picked up and/or have been indoctrined with.

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight "If Britain had not been in India..." The ole 'lesser evil' philosophy eh? Still millenia behind modern humans. We a responsible for what we do, not what the Russians or French do. "Decreased their freedom, yes. So what?", it was their freedom, and not ours to take. Clearly the concept of freedom and not forcing your will onto others is somekind of alien philosophy to you. Seriously, you have the morality of Gengis Khan.

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

this is dumbed down codswallop that ignores our ceaseless acts of aggression, subjugation and opression around the world.

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight How much do you think our insitutions benefited the Irish, the Indians and the Iranians we murdered?

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight "a world without empires was impossible, and that British rule was by far the greatest alternative?" Spoken like a true narcissist "But we built schools and hospitals...", that makes apalling excuses for his own and his nation's inhumanity. "We increased Indian education rates by 70% from the Mogols." and decreased their freedom by 100%. prat

@josephpanzarella1417 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the most interesting periods in British history though, sorry to say, you wouldn't think so based on the professor's remarks which are as dry as reading a building blueprint.

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight "You mean today or in the age of empires?" lol, you seem to think that the two are mutually exclusive. The modes of control may have changed but this country still operates as an imperial power, though now as the US's lapdog. "The only dictators...". I though you were supposed to be countering. "those institutions benefited the citiziens". How much have our institutions benefited the million Iraqis we and the US killed to control Iraqi oil? for example.

@ronaldschultenover7591 8 жыл бұрын

The British declined because they became involved in foreign wars, could not defeat germany, became hopelessly indebted to the USA.

@SwissCheese112 8 жыл бұрын

surely until you begin into your 50s, and keeping in mind a person has exercised (boxing, etc) and ate healthy, not smoked etc his whole life, their should be very few health problems until 50 years of age that common cold medicine and vaccinations wouldn't solve (unless an accident happens of course). and so would an insurance based health system make more sense? more sense than the nhs.

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 жыл бұрын

@TheLiberalKnight I have to say you are pretty typical of pro empire types, utterly narcissistic, think you know it all, assume everything that suits you, ignore everything that doesnt. Apparently I am a socialist, who is poorly educated and rather dim. I rest my case.