Politics and the people : a study in English political culture, c. 1815-1867
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Politics and the people : a study in English political culture, c. 1815-1867
Cambridge University Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. 399-420
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- List of plates
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: a new political history
- Part I. Politics, Community and Power: 2. Power legislated: the structure of official politics
- 3. Power imagined: the culture of official politics
- 4. The medium and the message: power, print, and the public sphere
- Part II. The Language of Organisation: 5. A language of party?
- 6. Organisation as symbol
- 7. The politics of culture
- 8. The idol and the icon: leaders and their popular constituencies
- Part III. Narratives of the Nation: 9. The nation and its people: the discourse of popular constitutionalism
- 10. Conclusion: new narratives in the history of English politics?
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
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