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Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, 1815 1867

Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, 1815 1867

Vernon, James

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral European HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0521115086
ISBN13: 9780521115087
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 25 2009
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This ambitious and provocative study provides a unique narrative of nineteenth-century English political history. Based on extensive research the book draws on critical theory to read and interpret a vast range of oral, visual and printed sources, in an attempt to expand our conception of the politics of the period. Read in the context of such sources, nineteenth-century English politics becomes resolved into a story about the struggle to define the nation's constitution, past, present and future. It suggests the existence of a popular strain of English libertarian politics, albeit one whose radical and democratic potential was gradually closed down. In short, despite the invention of a liberal constitution in this period, politics became less (not more) democratic, a lesson which the author sees as pertinent for many struggling to live in, or establish, liberal democratic constitutions in our own times.

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