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Entrepreneurial politics in mid-Victorian Britain /

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Historians have long debated the issue of why Britain did not experience a 'middle-class revolution'. In the mid-Victorian years, in the aftermath of the Great Reform Act and the repeal of the Corn Laws, it seemed that a decisive shift of power from the aristocracy to the middle class migh...

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Main Author: Searle, G. R. (Geoffrey Russell)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1837-1901.
Middle class > Political activity > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Entrepreneurship > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1837-1901.
Classes moyennes > Activité politique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Entrepreneuriat > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Entrepreneurship.
Middle class > Political activity.
Politics and government
Great Britain.
Politieke macht.
Parlementaire fracties.
Middenklassen.
Ondernemers.
1800-1901
Politics > History
Great Britain
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Class Politics in the 1840s
  • 2. Financial Reform, 1848-1853
  • 3. The Crimean War and Administrative Reform
  • 4. The Primacy of Palmerston? 1855-1865
  • 5. The Development of Commercial Politics, 1850-1870
  • 6. Parliamentary Reform
  • 7. The Problem of Education
  • 8. The Labour Problem.