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Robert Saunders - Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-1867, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-1867

The Making of the Second Reform Act

Av Robert Saunders

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The Second Reform Act, passed in 1867, created a million new voters, doubling the electorate and propelling the British state into the age of mass politics. It marked the end of a twenty year struggle for the working class vote, in which seven different governments had promised change. Yet the standard works on 1867 are more than forty years old and no study has ever been published of reform in prior decades. This study provides the first analysis of the subject from 1848 to 1867, ranging from the demise of Chartism to the passage of the Second Reform Act. Recapturing the vibrancy of the issue and its place at the heart of Victorian political culture, it focuses not only on the reform debate itself, but on a whole series of related controversies, including the growth of trade unionism, the impact of the 1848 revolutions and the discussion of French and American democracy.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-01-28
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 725 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781409417941
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Dr Robert Saunders is Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London.

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'This study, Robert Saunders's first book, is a comprehensive, well-written, subtle and incisive discussion of the mid-Victorian parliamentary Reform debate. It is a major contribution to our historical understanding of the discussions about the nature of the franchise and the extension of the vote, which culminated in the 1867 Reform Act. As now the best and most authoritative guide available to the Reform debates of the period, it explores the questions of why governments felt compelled to legislate on Reform and what it was they hoped to achieve. [...] His important, lucid and richly rewarding study places our understanding of the mid-Victorian Reform debates on a new, secure and sophisticated footing.' English Historical Review

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