Title: Democracy, capitalism, and empire in late Victorian Britain, 1885-1910 /
Authors: Wellhofer, E. Spencer, 1941-
Publisher: Macmillan Press ; St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Capitalism Great Britain History; Democracy Great Britain History; Great Britain Politics and government; Great Britain Colonies History; Great Britain Politics and government
Contents: 1. 'One Step Broken, The Great Scale's Destroyd' -- 2. 'A Deity of Equality' and 'Even a Safer Class of the Population': Debates on Expanding the Polity -- 3. 'Not only a Bad Metaphor': Classes, Masses and Races in late Victorian Politics -- 4. 'Comfortable Contemplations': The Effects of Franchise Expansion on Long-Term Social-Partisan Alignments -- 5. 'Our Best Friends': Short-Run Changes in Issues and Party Alliances -- 6. 'There are Races, as There are Trees': Challenges to Domestic Empire in Late Victorian Politics -- 7. Philosophers, Porters, Parsons and Parvenus -- 8. 'Men Make their own History, but ...' 'the Chain is Absolutely Continuous and Unbroken': Continuity and Change in the Transition to Mass Politics -- Appendix I: Units of Analysis, Data Description and Sources -- Appendix II: Analytical Techniques.