Shooting Niagara - And After? The Second Reform Act And Its World
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Beschreibung
The Second Reform Act of 1867 was a landmark in the history of British democracy. It doubled the electorate at a stroke, propelling the British state into the age of mass politics and creating for the first time a working-class predominance in the constituencies. This volume offers wide-ranging new approaches to the Second Reform Act and its world: both the political world it created and the intellectual world from which it emerged. It brings fresh perspectives from imperial history, Irish history, the history of childhood and the history of political thought, while showing how nationalists, colonialists, popular radicals and revolutionaries such as Karl Marx responded to the challenge and opportunity of reform.
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
Autor*in
Robert Saunders
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Allg. Geschichte Großbritanniens British Politics Geschichte Grossbritannien Grossbritannien /Politische Theorie, Geschichtsschreibung History Political Science Political Systems Politik Politik / Großbritannien Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme UK History General