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Politics without Democracy Michael Bentley (St Andrews University)

Politics without Democracy By Michael Bentley (St Andrews University)

Politics without Democracy by Michael Bentley (St Andrews University)


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Summary

Offers a view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy. This book attempts to take the reader into the minds of the politicians of the day. It presents an account of how Britain was transformed from a society governed by the landed gentry to one responsive to the pressures of the newly-industrialized masses.

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Politics without Democracy: England 1815-1918 by Michael Bentley (St Andrews University)

Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife.

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Refreshing, inspiring and elegant, there are few historians active today who could write at once as stimulatingly and as readably. Historical Journal

The challenge implicit in Bentley's task is great. His response is witty, intellectually exciting, stylistically seductive, and itself stands as a challenge to broad perspectives on Victorian politics. Victorian Studies

Bentley writes with a wide fund of knowledge; his judgements are shrewd and always worth considering. Encrusted orthodoxies are often challenged and negative home truths are brought into the open. Times Higher Education Supplement

About Michael Bentley (St Andrews University)

Michael Bentley is Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Map: Some Places.

Introduction to the First Edition.

Introduction to the Second Edition.

Part I: Pressure from Without, 1815-65: .

1. The Transformation of Party.

2. Renewal and Consolidation.

3. The Mechanics of Stability.

Part II: Pressure from Within, 1865-1914: .

4. Occupying the Centre.

5. Conservative Ascendancy.

6. Breaking the Mould?.

Appendix: Some People.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Research Theses.

Primary Sources.

Further Reading.

Index.

Additional information

GOR002994695
9780631218135
0631218130
Politics without Democracy: England 1815-1918 by Michael Bentley (St Andrews University)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19991030
356
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