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Church, Chapel and Party : Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in Nineteenth-Century England /

Through close examination of dozens of electoral contests in carefully chosen constituencies, the author demonstrates that the fundamental division separating the burgeoning liberal and conservative parties in England in the 1830s and 1840s was religion, and that this controversy was what created a...

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Main Author: Floyd, Richard D. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:Studies in Modern History.
Subjects:
History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Religion.
Modern History.
Political History.
Social History.
History, Modern.
Religion > History.
Social history.
World politics.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
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Summary:Through close examination of dozens of electoral contests in carefully chosen constituencies, the author demonstrates that the fundamental division separating the burgeoning liberal and conservative parties in England in the 1830s and 1840s was religion, and that this controversy was what created a perceptible two-party system in British politics.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 295 pages)
ISBN:9780230590588
DOI:10.1057/9780230590588