Download or read book Parliament Party and Politics in Victorian Britain written by Terence Andrew Jenkins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise, and readable new study, T. A. Jenkins explains in full how political parties operated within the Victorian political arena, and how this gradually changed in response to the enormous demands being made upon parliament by a rapidly changing society and an expanding electorate.
Download or read book Victorian Political Culture written by Angus Hawkins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Britain is often described as an age of dawning democracy and as an exemplar of the modern Liberal state; yet a hereditary monarchy, a hereditary House of Lords, and an established Anglican Church survived as influential aspects of national public life with traditional elites assuming redefined roles. After 1832, constitutional notions of 'mixed government' gradually gave way to the orthodoxy of 'parliamentary government', shaping the function and nature of political parties in Westminster and the constituencies, as well as the relations between them. Following the 1867-8 Reform Acts, national political parties began to replace the premises of 'parliamentary government'. The subsequent emergence of a mass male electorate in the 1880s and 1890s prompted politicians to adopt new language and methods by which to appeal to voters, while enduring public values associated with morality, community and evocations of the past continued to shape Britain's distinctive political culture. This gave a particularly conservative trajectory to the nation's entry into the twentieth century. This study of British political culture from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century examines the public values that informed perceptions of the constitution, electoral activity, party partisanship, and political organization. Its exploration of Victorian views of status, power, and authority as revealed in political language, speeches, and writing, as well as theology, literature, and science, shows how the development of moral communities rooted in readings of the past enabled politicians to manage far-reaching change. This presents a new over-arching perspective on the constitutional and political transformations of the Victorian age.
Download or read book The Efficient Secret written by Gary W. Cox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rational choice model analyses the problems of voter choice, the emergence of partly loyalty and cabinet government in Victorian England.
Download or read book Party and Constituency in Victorian Britain written by Gary Walter Cox and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disraeli and the Art of Victorian Politics written by Ian St. John and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive review of the political career of Benjamin Disraeli, providing a thorough critical analysis of one of the most ambitious and controversial leaders in British history. 'Disraeli and the Art of Victorian Politics' will be a major addition to our understanding of the dynamics of nineteenth-century politics.
Download or read book Parliament the Mirror of the Nation written by Gregory Conti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?
Download or read book Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mary Countess of Derby and the Politics of Victorian Britain written by Jennifer Davey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Mary Derby (1824-1900) occupied a pivotal position in Victorian politics, yet her activities have largely been overlooked or ignored. This volume provides a rich investigation of how a woman, with few legal or constitutional rights, was able to become a significant figure in mid-Victorian political life.
Download or read book Languages of Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain written by D. Craig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensible and accessible portrait of the various 'languages' which shaped public life in nineteenth century Britain, covering key themes such as governance, statesmanship, patriotism, economics, religion, democracy, women's suffrage, Ireland and India.
Download or read book Gladstone Disraeli and Later Victorian Politics written by Paul Adelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new edition of this introductory survey of the two main political parties, from the rise of the Liberal Party under Gladstone until the period of Conservative domination under Salisbury in the late nineteenth century. As well as assessing the impact of major political landmarks such as the Great Reform Acts, it also describes the nineteenth century political scene.
Download or read book By elections in British Politics 1832 1914 written by Thomas G. Otte and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the many issues surrounding by-elections in the period which saw the extension of the franchise, the introduction of the ballot, and the demise of most dual member constituencies. Between the 1832 Great Reform Act and the outbreak of World War One in 1914, over 2,600 by-elections took place in Britain. They were triggered by the death, retirement or resignation of sitting MPs or by the appointment of cabinet ministers and were a regular feature of Victorian and Edwardian politics. They furnished political parties and their leaders with a crucial tool for gauging and mobilising public opinion. Yet despite the prominence of by-election contests in the historical records of this period, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. As this book shows, these elections deserve to be taken as seriously today as people took them at the time. They providedimportant linkages between local and national politics, between the four parts of the United Kingdom and Westminster, and between foreign and domestic affairs. They are vital to understanding the evolving electioneering machineries, the varying language of electoral contests, the traction that particular issues had with a growing and frequently volatile electorate, and the fluctuating fortunes of the political parties. This book, consisting of original work by leading political historians, provides the first synoptic study of this important subject. It will be required reading for historians and students of modern British political history, as well as specialists in electoralhistory and politics. T. G. Otte is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author and/or editor of some thirteen books. Among the most recent is The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865-1914; Paul Readman is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at King's College London. He is the author of Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity and the Politics of Land 1880-1914. Contributors: Luke Blaxill, Angus Hawkins, Geoffrey Hicks, Phillips Payson O'Brien, T.G. Otte, Ian Packer, Gordon Pentland, Paul Readman, Kathryn Rix, Matthew Roberts, Philip Salmon, Anthony Taylor
Download or read book Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain written by Henry Pelling and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Early Parties and Politics in Britain 1688 1832 written by Brian Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-03-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has always been a tendency to view British politics before the 1832 reform act as though the parties in parliament were clumsy, embryo versions of the later Conservatives and Liberals - their every act interpreted as being either as further striving towards modernity or a relapse into more primitive patterns of behaviour. This can be helpful to students in disentangling some very complex factional material, but for much of the time the 19th and 20th century party labels simply do not make any sense at all in this earlier period. A good, clear account of what exactly was meant by 'party' and how the different parliamentary groupings evolved from the Restoration to the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars has long been needed, and Brian Hill, who has studied this issue for many years, has at last provided such an account.
Download or read book Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain written by F. Parsons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).
Download or read book Parliamentary Government in Britain written by Michael Rush and published by New York : Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis written by William C. Lubenow and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging study of British parliamentary politics at the time of the Irish Home Rule crisis, W.C. Lubenow analyzes the House of Commons division lists to establish voting patterns and compares these with the partisan, social, and constituency backgrounds of its Members. Drawing on both statistical and manuscript sources, Lubenow describes the responses to ideological issues, including Gladstone's Home Rule policy, and examines the elements that shaped it. The result is a bold new study of the extent to which parliamentary behavior can be explained by theories of political maneuvering, social class, and constituency influence.
Download or read book Party and Politics 1830 1852 written by Robert Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflective analysis of the contests for power between landowners and representatives of manufacturing and trading capital at the time of the great Reform Act and the repeal of the Corn Laws. The text aims to prove that this rivalry led to the modern British party system.
