Rethinking the Age of Reform
Subtitle: Britain 17801850 (Past and Present Publications)
Contributors: Arthur Burns (Editor); Joanna Innes (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521823944
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Cultural studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social history; Theatre, drama; Reform; History; Europe - Great Britain - General; History - General History; Politics and government; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; General; History / Great Britain; 19th century; 1760-1820; Great Britain; Parliament
First sentence: Historians have variously employed the notion of an 'age of reform': sometimes including within its scope the build-up of pressure for 'reform' from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, sometimes limiting their attention to the years following the 'Great Reform Act' of 1832.