Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, 1815 1867 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521115087)

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.

Author: James Vernon
ISBN-10: 0521115086
ISBN-13: 9780521115087
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2009
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d