Political Unions, Popular Politics, and the Great Reform Act of 1832
- List Price: $65.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Publish date: 01/01/1999
Description:
This is the first book on the creation, development and influence of popular politics, specifically the role of political unions, on the Great Reform Act of 1832. Political unions and the force of public opinion played a vital role in seeing the Reform Bill through Parliament and setting England on the path of peaceful, legislative reform. Their emphasis on representing the "industrious" classes linked the Unions to the emerging political and socio-economic debates in later Victorian Britain and to the evolution of British participatory democracy.
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