Politics without Democracy: England 1815-1918 / Edition 1

by Michael Bentley

Overview

Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631218128
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/22/1999
Series:	Blackwell Classic Histories of England
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.22(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Michael Bentley is Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Map: Some Places.

Introduction to the First Edition.

Introduction to the Second Edition.

Part I: Pressure from Without, 1815-65: .

1. The Transformation of Party.

2. Renewal and Consolidation.

3. The Mechanics of Stability.

Part II: Pressure from Within, 1865-1914: .

4. Occupying the Centre.

5. Conservative Ascendancy.

6. Breaking the Mould?.

Appendix: Some People.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Research Theses.

Primary Sources.

Further Reading.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Refreshing, inspiring and elegant, there are few historians active today who could write at once as stimulatingly and as readably." Historical Journal

"The challenge implicit in Bentley's task is great. His response is witty, intellectually exciting, stylistically seductive, and itself stands as a challenge to broad perspectives on Victorian politics." Victorian Studies

"Bentley writes with a wide fund of knowledge; his judgements are shrewd and always worth considering. Encrusted orthodoxies are often challenged and negative home truths are brought into the open." Times Higher Education Supplement

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