Pillars of government, and other essays on state and society, c.1770-c.1880 /
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London ; Baltimore, Md., USA :
E. Arnold,
1986.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Pillars of government
- The English constitution in the age of the American revolution
- The crisis of the Anglican establishment in the early nineteenth century
- 'The state of the nation' (1822)
- 'Cheap government', 1815-1874
- Parliament and democracy in Britain : the three nineteenth-century reform acts
- Part II. Elections and electioneering
- Peel and the Oxford University election of 1829
- Brougham and the Yorkshire election of 1830
- Oxford politics in the chancellor's election of 1834
- The historical significance of the Tamworth manifesto
- Bonham and the conservative party, 1830-1857
- Part III. People and society
- A Glaswegian criminologist : Patrick Colquhoun, 1745-1820
- The founder of modern conservatism
- Lord George Bentinck and his sporting world
- Epilogue
- A modest defence of historical biography
- Some reflections on history.