London Politics, 1760-1914 [electronic resource] /
Cragoe, M.editor.
Taylor, A.editor.
This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-equality preoccupations of the provinces which currently dominate scholarly literature. As these essays reveal, the capital remained more concerned with older struggles for political independence. By highlighting the inability of existing accounts to accommodate metropolitan distinctiveness, the collection aims to stimulate a major reappraisal not of London politics alone, but of Victorian political history more generally.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Metropolitan 'Radicalism' and Electoral Independence, 1760-1820; 2 'Policing the Peelers': Parliament, the Public, and the Metropolitan Police, 1829-33; 3 Metropolitan Whiggery, 1832-55; 4 Post-Chartism: Metropolitan Perspectives on the Chartist Movement in Decline 1848-80; 5 Secularism in the City: Geographies of Dissidence and the Importance of Radical Culture in the Metropolis; 6 Transcending the Metropolis: London and Provincial Popular Radicalism, c.1860-75
7 From 'First Constituency of the Empire' to 'Citadel of Reaction': Westminster, 1800-908 Late Victorian and Edwardian 'Slum Conservatism': How Different were the Politics of the London Poor?; 9 'In Darkest Lambeth': Henry Morton Stanley and the Imperial Politics of London Unionism; 10 London-over-the-border: Politics in Suburban Walthamstow, 1870-1914; Conclusion; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-equality preoccupations of the provinces which currently dominate scholarly literature. As these essays reveal, the capital remained more concerned with older struggles for political independence. By highlighting the inability of existing accounts to accommodate metropolitan distinctiveness, the collection aims to stimulate a major reappraisal not of London politics alone, but of Victorian political history more generally.
Great Britain—History.
World politics.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Political History.
Modern History.