Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain (Hardcover)

Historians have long debated the issue of why Britain did not experience a 'middle-class revolution'. In the mid-Victorian years, in the aftermath of the Great Reform Act and the repeal of the Corn Laws, it seemed that a decisive shift of power from the aristocracy to the middle class might take place. In this perceptive and original book, G. R. Searle shows how many MPs from business backgrounds, the so-called 'entrepreneurial Radicals', came to Westminster determined to impose their own values and priorities on national life. Some wanted to return public manufacturing establishments to private ownership; others hoped to create an 'educational market'. Nearly all of them worried about how best to safeguard the truths of political economy should the franchise be extended to the propertyless masses. Their partial successes and many failures helped determine the political culture of modern Britain.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 1993
First published:	May 1993
Authors:	G. R. Searle (Senior Lecturer in History)
Dimensions:	241 x 159 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	354
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-820357-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-19-820357-8
Barcode:	9780198203575

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