James Vernon

Politics and the People

A Study in English Political Culture, 1815 1867

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An ambitious reinterpretation of nineteenth-century English politics using oral, visual and printed records.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780521115087
• ISBN-10: 0521115086
• Artikelnr.: 26153116

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: a new political history
Part I. Politics, Community and Power: 2. Power legislated: the structure of official politics
3. Power imagined: the culture of official politics
4. The medium and the message: power, print, and the public sphere
Part II. The Language of Organisation: 5. A language of party?
6. Organisation as symbol
7. The politics of culture
8. The idol and the icon: leaders and their popular constituencies
Part III. Narratives of the Nation: 9. The nation and its people: the discourse of popular constitutionalism
10. Conclusion: new narratives in the history of English politics?
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.