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- catalog abstract ""This ambitious and provocative study provides a new narrative of nineteenth-century English political history. Based on extensive research the book draws on recent 'postmodern' critical theory to read a vast range of hitherto neglected oral, visual and printed sources, in an attempt to expand our conception of the politics of the period. Read in this way, nineteenth-century English politics resolved itself into a story about the struggle to define the nation's constitution, past, present and future. It suggests the existence of a popular strain of English libertarian politics, albeit one that was used in many different ways. However, the book is also about the erosion of the radical and democratic potential of both this libertarian tradition and the constitution. Ironically, the invention of England's liberal democratic constitution depended upon the demise of the democratic forms of popular politics which accompanied the ascendancy of print and organised mass party politics. Thus, despite the inclusion of many men within the constitution, politics became less (not more) democratic: a phenomenon which the author sees as pertinent for many struggling to live in, or to establish, liberal democratic constitutions in our own times."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b5009986.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 19th century.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description ""This ambitious and provocative study provides a new narrative of nineteenth-century English political history. Based on extensive research the book draws on recent 'postmodern' critical theory to read a vast range of hitherto neglected oral, visual and printed sources, in an attempt to expand our conception of the politics of the period. Read in this way, nineteenth-century English politics resolved itself into a story about the struggle to define the nation's constitution, past, present and future. It suggests the existence of a popular strain of English libertarian politics, albeit one that was used in many different ways. However, the book is also about the erosion of the radical and democratic potential of both this libertarian tradition and the constitution. Ironically, the invention of England's liberal democratic constitution depended upon the demise of the democratic forms of popular politics which accompanied the ascendancy of print and organised mass party politics. Thus, despite the inclusion of many men within the constitution, politics became less (not more) democratic: a phenomenon which the author sees as pertinent for many struggling to live in, or to establish, liberal democratic constitutions in our own times."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 429 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521420903".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "306.2/0941 20".
- catalog subject "JN216 .V47 1993".
- catalog subject "Political culture Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog title "Politics and the people : a study in English political culture, c. 1815-1867 / James Vernon.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".