Political Rhetoric in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions, 1830–1870

Taru Haapala is Research Fellow in Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The rhetoric of parliamentary debate.- Chapter 2: The Union Societies’ role in the formation of a parliamentary culture of debate.-  Chapter 3: Procedure and debate in the British parliamentary culture.- Chapter 4: The politics of agenda in the Union debates.- Chapter 5: The politics of debate in the Union Societies.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Transfer of the rhetoric of procedure to British debating societies.- Appendices.- Bibliography.- Index