| Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform: Whigs and Liberals 1830-1852 Contributor(s): Mandler, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198217811 ISBN-13: 9780198217817 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1990 Annotation: This book challenges the view that there was a smooth and inevitable progression towards liberalism in early nineteenth-century England. It examines the argument of the high whigs that the landed aristocracy still had a positive contribution to make to the welfare of the people. This argument gained significance as the laissez-faire state met with serious reverses in the 1830s and 1840s, when the bulk of the people proved unwilling to accept the "compromise" forged between the middle classes and other sections of the landed elite, and mass movements for political and social reform proliferated. Drawing on a rich variety of original sources, Mandler provides a vivid image of the high aristocracy at the peak of its wealth and power, and offers a provocative and unique analysis of how their rejection of middle-class manners helped them to govern Britain in two troubled decades of social unrest. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism |
| Dewey: 320.941 |
| LCCN: 89026535 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.38 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This book challenges the view that there was a smooth and inevitable progression towards liberalism in early nineteenth-century England. It examines the argument of the high whigs that the landed aristocracy still had a positive contribution to make to the welfare of the people. This argument gained significance as the laissez-faire state met with serious reverses in the 1830s and 1840s, when the bulk of the people proved unwilling to accept the compromise forged between the middle classes and other sections of the landed elite, and mass movements for political and social reform proliferated. Drawing on a rich variety of original sources, Mandler provides a vivid image of the high aristocracy at the peak of its wealth and power, and offers a provocative and unique analysis of how their rejection of middle-class manners helped them to govern Britain in two troubled decades of social unrest. |