1st Edition

Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England

By Rohan McWilliam Copyright 1998
140 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900, the period from Luddism to the New Liberalism. This is an area that has attracted great historical interest and has undergone fundamental revision in the last two decades. Did the industrial revolution create the working class movement or was... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 The Old Analysis; Chapter 1 Reinterpreting the Queen Caroline Case; Chapter 2 From the Old Analysis to the New; Part 2 New directions; Chapter 3 The Peculiarities of Politics; Chapter 4 A Polity-Centred History?; Chapter 5 The Culture of Popular Radicalism I; Chapter 6 The Culture of Popular Radicalism II; Chapter 7 The Nation and Politics I; Chapter 8 The Nation and Politics II; Conclusion;

Biography

Rohan McWilliam is Lecturer in History at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge.