Entrepreneurial politics in mid-Victorian Britain
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Entrepreneurial politics in mid-Victorian Britain
Oxford University Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [322]-337
Includes index
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Description
Historians have long debated the issue of why Britain did not experience a `middle-class revolution'. In the mid-Victorian years, in the aftermath of the Great Reform Act and the repeal of the Corn Laws, it seemed that a decisive shift of power from the aristocracy to the middle class might take place.
In this perceptive and original book, G. R. Searle shows how many MPs from business backgrounds, the so-called 'entrepreneurial Radicals', came to Westminster determined to impose their own values and priorities on national life. Some wanted to return public manufacturing establishments to private ownership; others hoped to create an 'educational market'. Nearly all of them worried about how best to safeguard the truths of political economy should the franchise be extended to the propertyless
masses. Their partial successes and many failures helped determine the political culture of modern Britain.
Table of Contents
- Class politics in the 1840s
- financial reform, 1848-1853
- the Crimean War and administrative reform
- the primacy of Palmerston? 1855-1865
- the development of commercial politics, 1850-1870
- parliamentary reform
- the problem of education
- the labour problem.
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