'Shooting Niagara -- And After?': The Second Reform ACT and Its World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781119387923)

Vendor: Robert Saunders
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Format: Paperback
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'Shooting Niagara -- And After?': The Second Reform ACT and Its World

$36.25

'Shooting Niagara -- And After?': The Second Reform ACT and Its World

$36.25
Format: Paperback
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Shooting Niagara - And After? is a wide-ranging examination of Britain's Second Reform Act of 1867 and its impact, which doubled the electorate and propelled the country into the age of mass politics.

  • Discusses the political world that the Second Reform Act created, as well as the intellectual forces which brought it into being
  • Addresses issues and perspectives related to political history, imperial history, Irish history, the history of childhood, popular protest, political thought, class, age, and gender
  • Contains contributions from distinguished scholars, such as Malcolm Chase, Kathryn Gleadle, Jonathan Parry and Gareth Stedman Jones, as well as from younger and emerging scholars
  • Coincides with the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Second Reform Act, a landmark in the history of British democracy


Author: Robert Saunders
ISBN-10: 1119387922
ISBN-13: 9781119387923
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2017
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d
By Robert Saunders
By Robert Saunders
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Robert Saunders is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary University of London, specialising in political history and the relationship between Britain and Europe. He is the author of Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-67 and the co-editor, with Ben Jackson, of Making Thatcher's Britain. He is currently writing a new history of the 1975 referendum on membership of the European Community. Dr Saunders has provided comment and analysis for a wide range of media outlets, including the BBC, CNN and NPR, and recently appeared in the BBC TV series The Victorian Slum.

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