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Item Details
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ENTREPRENEURIAL POLITICS IN MID-VICTORIAN BRITAIN
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| By: |
G.R. Searle |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£130.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198203578 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198203575 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 March, 1993 |
| Pages: |
354 |
| Description: |
The Great Reform Act and the repeal of the Corn Laws, seemed to make a shift in power to the middle classes a possibility. This book shows how "entrepreneurial Radicals" came to Westminster to impose their values on national life, and how their successes and failures shaped Britain's politics. |
| Synopsis: |
Historians have long debated the issue of why Britain did not experience a 'middle-class revolution'. In the mid-Victorian years, in the aftermath of the Great Reform Act and the repeal of the Corn Laws, it seemed that a decisive shift of power from the aristocracy to the middle class might take place. In this perceptive and original book, G. R. Searle shows how many MPs from business backgrounds, the so-called 'entrepreneurial Radicals', came to Westminster determined to impose their own values and priorities on national life. Some wanted to return public manufacturing establishments to private ownership; others hoped to create an 'educational market'. Nearly all of them worried about how best to safeguard the truths of political economy should the franchise be extended to the propertyless masses. Their partial successes and many failures helped determine the political culture of modern Britain. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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