English Constitution

Name: English Constitution
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780199539017

ISBN-10: 0199539014

ISBN-13: 9780199539017

Edition: 2009

Authors: Walter Bagehot, Miles Taylor

List price: $13.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $10.04

Rent eBooks

180 day rental: $5.85 Expiration date: 10/22/2024

Marketplace

5 new & used from $5.48

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and workings of the British political system ever written. As arguments raged in mid-Victorian Britain about giving the working man the vote, and democracies overseas were pitched into despotism and civil war, Bagehot took a long, cool look at the "dignified" and "efficient" elements which made the English system the envy of the world. His analysis of the monarchy, the role of the prime minister and cabinet, and comparisons with the American presidential system are astute and timeless, pertinent to current discussions surrounding devolution and electoral reform. Combining the wit and panache of a journalist…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/25/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.72" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Miles Taylor is Director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK. His books include The Decline of British Radicalism, 1847-60 (1995), Ernest Jones, Chartism and the Romance of Politics, 1819-69 (2003) and (co-edited with Michael Wolff), The Victorians since 1901: Histories, Representations and Revisions (2004).