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Britain before the Reform Act: Politics and Society 1815-1832

Autor Eric J. Evans
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 iul 2008
In the years1815-1832, Britain came close to revolution. Fewer than twenty years separate the Battle of Waterloo from the passing of the ‘Great’ Reform Act but during this period Britain’s political elite was challenged as never before. In rising to that challenge, the political elite attempted, with considerable success, to ensure that Britain engineered that most perilous of transitions, from a less complex and more deferential society into a modern urban and industrial one, while avoding political revolution.
In this extensively revised 2nd edition Evans engages with a welter of new material and fresh interpretations. The book sheds light both on the challenges to existing political and social authority and why those challenges were seen off.
Evans examines:
·         The composition of Britain’s political elite and how this elite coped with the problems thrown up by a society urbanising and modernising at an unprecedented rate.
·         How Britain reacted to the longer-term implications of the French Revolution, including the development of a more cohesive national identity.  
·         How the elite attempted to maintain public order in this period – and with what success.
·         The extent of change in Britain’s political system brought about by political, religious and administrative reforms
 Written in accessible style, with a rich collection of documents, chronology, glossary, a guide to further reading,and a ‘Who’s Who’ which summarises the careers and contributions of the main figures, this new edition is essential for all those interested in understanding Britain at this most crucial turning point in its history.
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ISBN-13: 9780582299085
ISBN-10: 058229908X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 170 x 240 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Notă biografică

Eric J Evans is Emeritus Professor of History at Lancaster University. He is the author of numerous titles of political and social history. His publications include Parliamentary Reform, 1770-1918 (1999) and The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870 (3rd edition,2001) and Thatcher and Thatcherism (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2013).

Cuprins

Chronology. Who's Who. Glossary. Part One: Analysis. 1. Introduction. 2. Britain in crisis? 1815-20. 3. The achievement of stability? 1821-7. 4. Britain's influence abroad. 5. Stability shattered 1827-32. 6. Conclusion. Part Two: Documents. Further Reading. References. Index.



Descriere

`The birth of a new age'. This is how Eric Evans describes the importance of the period 1815-1832. His study considers the tremendous forces of change operating after industrialisation and discusses the achievment of Lord Liverpool's administration in containing these pressures, thereby leading the way to evolutionary change rather than revolution.
Evans contextualises the calls for political reform and demonstrates that it was by no means the only issue on the agenda. Thus, foreign policy, trade, legal reforms, taxation, Robert Peel's introduction of a police force and - perhaps most important of all the contemporaries- religious changes, are given sustained attention.