Aristocracy and People Britain, 1815-1865

Name: Aristocracy and People Britain, 1815-1865
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ISBN: 9780674044913

ISBN-10: 0674044916

ISBN-13: 9780674044913

Edition: 1979

Authors: Norman Gash

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One of the foremost scholars of nineteenth-century England, Gash has written a new interpretation of the years 1815 to 1865 that takes industrialization off center stage as the great dramatic event in national life. Gash integrates other equally significant changes the postwar slump in trade and manufacturing, the unprecedented expansion of population, and the increasing urbanization. He argues that the singular ability of the industrial revolution to produce wealth and skills enabled England to cope with impending social catastrophe. Gash also reintroduces the importance of politics in explaining events, and he challenges the recent historical interpretations giving primacy to class…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Country and People


Government and Religion


The Peterloo Years


The Government and the State of the Nation


The Constitutional Revolution


Parties and Politics


The ‘Condition of England' Question


Peel's Decade


The Decline of Party Politics


Safeguard and Security


Peace and Prosperity: Taking Stock in 1865


Bibliography


Appendices


Increase in Population, 1801-61


Yearly Average Price of Wheat, 1811-64


Distribution of Parliamentary Seats before and after the Reform Act of 1832


Index