Studies in Modern History

LoPatin, N.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-11-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333736371

DOI: 10.1057/9780230371026

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 236