{"product_id":"politics-and-the-people-james-vernon-9780521115087","title":"Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, 1815 1867","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Vernon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521115086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521115087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"James Vernon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443503739135,"sku":"9780521115087","price":66.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d015973-2f4c-4b1d-98d9-cf410f84522a.jpg?v=1777205926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/politics-and-the-people-james-vernon-9780521115087","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}