Voices of the people
Subtitle: democracy and Chartist political identity, 1830-1870
By: Robert G. Hall.
Series: Chartist studies series -- v. 8; Chartist studies series -- no. 8.
Publisher: Merlin Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Monmouth, Wales
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780850365641; 9780850365573
Subjects: Chartism -- History.; Chartism -- England -- Ashton-under-Lyne -- History.; Democracy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Locality and nation : democracy and Chartist political identity; title: The art and craft of mule spinning : masculinity, skill and the gender division of labour, 1790-1860; title: What is a Chartist? Defining a democratic political identity, 1838-1842; title: Myth and reality : the experience of defeat, 1839-1842; title: A united people? Leaders and followers in a Chartist locality, 1838-1848; title: Liberalization versus radicalization : some causes and consequences of the decline of Chartism, 1848-1860; title: Chartism remembered : William Aitken, liberalism and the politics of memory.