Rethinking the Age of Reform
Subtitle: Britain 17801850 (Past and Present Publications)
Contributors: Arthur Burns (Editor); Joanna Innes (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521039499
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain
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.