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'Shooting Niagara -- And After?': The Second Reform ACT and Its World
Contributor(s): Saunders, Robert (Editor)
ISBN: 1119387922     ISBN-13: 9781119387923
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $34.44  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: March 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | World - European
- Law | Constitutional
Dewey: 342.410
LCCN: 2017004044
Series: Parliamentary History Book
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.45 lbs) 136 pages
 
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Shooting Niagara - And After? is a wide-ranging examination of Britain's Second Reform Act of 1867 and its impact, which doubled the electorate and propelled the country into the age of mass politics.

  • Discusses the political world that the Second Reform Act created, as well as the intellectual forces which brought it into being
  • Addresses issues and perspectives related to political history, imperial history, Irish history, the history of childhood, popular protest, political thought, class, age, and gender
  • Contains contributions from distinguished scholars, such as Malcolm Chase, Kathryn Gleadle, Jonathan Parry and Gareth Stedman Jones, as well as from younger and emerging scholars
  • Coincides with the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Second Reform Act, a landmark in the history of British democracy