Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, 1815-1867This 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. |
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Contents
A new political history I | 1 |
the structure of official politics | 15 |
Map of Bostons municipal and parliamentary boundaries after 1835 | 26 |
Map of Oldhams municipal and parliamentary boundaries | 28 |
Map of Devon constituency with 1832 boundary changes | 34 |
Map of Lewes constituency with 1832 boundary changes | 35 |
Map of Boston constituency with 1832 boundary changes | 37 |
Map of Oldham constituency | 40 |
power print and | 105 |
28 | 106 |
35 | 115 |
37 | 116 |
CON RF 43 | 117 |
51 | 121 |
57 | 123 |
59 | 124 |
7a Map of Tower Hamlets constituency with 1867 | 42 |
7b Map of Hackney constituency as created by the 1867 | 43 |
the culture of official politics | 48 |
Lewes County Hall | 50 |
Oldham Town Hall | 51 |
Mile End Vestry Hall | 52 |
Ceremonial opening of Oldhams Alexandra Park 1865 | 57 |
Statue of John Platt the civic father | 59 |
Ceremonial inauguration of Herbert Ingrams statue Boston 1862 | 61 |
The publics uses of John Platts statue | 62 |
Mayors Day ceremony at Boston c 1910 | 72 |
Royal proclamation from Bostons assembly rooms 1910 | 76 |
Royal proclamation at Oldham Town Hall 1910 | 77 |
the order of procession at Wilks page 26 | 83 |
View of the Castle Yard Devon c 1820 | 84 |
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| Title | Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, 1815-1867 |
| Author | James Vernon |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0521420903, 9780521420907 |
| Length | 429 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Europe / Great Britain / General History / Modern / General |
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