Political Movements in Urban England, 1832-1914

by Matthew Roberts

Overview

A critical introduction to the mass political movements that came of age in urban England between the Great Reform Act of 1832 and the start of World War One. Roberts provides a guide to the new approaches to topics such as Chartism, parliamentary reform, Gladstonian Liberalism, popular Conservatism and the independent Labour movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403949127
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Series:	British History in Perspective , #24
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

MATTHEW ROBERTS is Lecturer in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
MATTHEW ROBERTS is Lecturer in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Citizenship, the Franchise and Electoral Culture
Radicalism in the Age of the Chartists
The Culture and 'Failure' of Radicalism
The Making of Mid-Victoran Popular Liberalism
Post-Chartist Radicalism and the (Un)making of Popular Liberalism
Rethinking the 'Transformation' of Popular Conservatism
Defining and Debating Popular Conservatism
The Decline of Liberalism and the Rise of Labour I: A Narrative
The Decline of Liberalism and the Rise of Labour II: The Debate
The Modernization of Popular Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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From the Publisher

An excellent survey of the history of nineteenth-century British politics, based on a thorough and extensive set of readings of the latest scholarship on the subject.' – Peter Stansky, Stanford University, USA