| Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, 1815-1867 Contributor(s): Vernon, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521115086 ISBN-13: 9780521115087 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2009 Annotation: An ambitious reinterpretation of nineteenth-century English politics using oral, visual and printed records. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 306.209 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.44 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
