Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832 (Studies in Modern History) - Hardcover

LoPatin, N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333736370 ISBN 13: 9780333736371

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Synopsis

This book is the first 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 debates - political and socio-economic - in later Victorian Britain and the evolution of British participatory democracy.

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About the Author

NANCY D. LoPATIN is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She received her training at Hofstra University and Washington University in St Louis (PhD, 1988) and has published articles on the 1832 Reform Act and Political Unions in Parliamentary History and other journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333736370
• ISBN 13: 9780333736371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248