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The great reform bill in the boroughs : English electoral behaviour, 1818-1841
- Title
- The great reform bill in the boroughs : English electoral behaviour, 1818-1841 / John A. Phillips.
- Author
- Phillips, John A., 1949-
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 337 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This is a study of popular political behaviour both before and after the Great Reform Act of 1832. Historians are divided over the impact of the Act, some heralding it as the dawn of a new age while others have dismissed it as an irrelevance."--BOOK JACKET. "John A. Phillips's new analysis, firmly grounded on detailed research in a number of provincial boroughs, explores the nature of parliamentary representation in the pre-Reform era and assesses the effects of the 1832 Act. Professor Phillips shows that the unreformed electoral system permitted extensive popular political participation; nevertheless the Reform Act politicized the electorate to a degree not possible or even imaginable before. His book establishes the role of Reform as the catalyst which shaped a new pattern of politics and launched the struggle for parliamentary democracy in Britain."--Jacket
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Geschichte 1832
- Geschichte 1818-1841
- Elections > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Voting > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Elections
- Politics and government
- Voting
- Parlamentsreform
- Wahlverhalten
- Elections > Great Britain > 19th century
- Voting > Great Britain > 19th century
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. The Promise of Reform. 1. Great Expectations -- pt. II. The Impact of Reform. 2. Reform and Reaction: Bristol and 1832. 3. Reform Resplendent: The Political Transformation of Maidstone and Colchester. 4. Reform Act or Reform Era?: Political Change in Shrewsbury and Northampton -- pt. III. The Limitations of Reform. 5. Reform Redundant: Political Continuity in Lewes and Great Yarmouth. 6. Reform Retardant: Parliamentary and Municipal Reform in Beverley -- pt. IV. Class, Religion, and Reform. 7. Reform Refracted 1: Working and Voting. 8. Reform Refracted 2: Praying and Voting. Conclusion: The Great Reform Bill?
- ISBN
- 0198202962
- 9780198202967
- LCCN
- 91045438
- OCLC
- ocm25026597
- 25026597
- SCSB-1962268
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library