| Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Lopatin, N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333736370 ISBN-13: 9780333736371 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - Legislative Branch - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Modern - General |
| Dewey: 328 |
| Series: Studies in Modern History |
| Physical Information: 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is the first on the creation, development and influence of popular politics, specifically the role of Political Unions, on the Great Reform Act of 1832. Political Unions and the force of public opinion played a vital role in seeing the Reform Bill through Parliament and setting England on the path of peaceful, legislative reform. Their emphasis on representing the 'industrious' classes linked the Unions to the emerging debates - political and socio-economic - in later Victorian Britain and the evolution of British participatory democracy. |