This book reflects on popular politics in Britain during the
turbulent period of industrialization, focusing on how political
meanings were produced and sustained. It is also a spirited series
of responses to the changing terrain of historical studies. It
takes as its starting point the goal of defining a middle ground
between E. P. Thompson's concept of cultural materialism and the
postmodern view of culture as a system of signs and codes (with
emphasis on the linguistic grounding of experience). The first part
of the book evaluates and critiques the work of two of the most
influential proponents of the linguistic turn in British historical
writing: Gareth Stedman Jones and Patrick Joyce. The second part
contains four case studies: the first two treating British
political culture in the age of the French Revolution, the third
dealing with the role of space in historical reasoning, and the
fourth assessing the role of gentleman leaders within popular
movements.
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