This book charts the course of working- and middle-class radical politics in England from the continental revolutions of 1848 to the fall of Gladstone's Liberal government in 1874. The author traces the genealogy of English radicalism from its roots in Protestant Dissent and the seventeenth-century revolutions, but also shows how this shared radical tradition was problematized by middle-class radicals' acceptance of classical liberal economics. She traces the lineaments of this divide by contrasting middle- and working-class responses to the continental revolutions of 1848-9, to the Polish and Italian nationalism of the 1860s, and to the Paris Commune in 1871. She argues that these years witnessed not the relentless liberalization of working-class radical protest in England, but rather a significant diminution of middle-class radicals' commitment to liberal economics. This accommodation contributed to the emergence of the 'New Liberalism' of the 1880s, and helped to shape middle- and working-class responses to the early socialist movement.
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'Based on a truly impressive range of archival material, this is a thoughtful account of the persistence and nature of English radicalism between Chartism and New Liberalism ... an important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century England.' Archives
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This book charts the course of working- and middle-class radical politics in England from the fall of Chartism in 1848 to the fall of Gladstone's Liberal government in 1874. The author argues that these years saw the gradual radicalisation of middle-class liberals, rather than the demoralisation of working-class culture.
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Nations and classes have long (if warily) coexisted in Britain, but national history and class analysis have proven difficult to combine in even the subset of British historiography devoted exclusively to England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labour aristocracy thesis, international patriotism, continental nationalism, continental revolutions, liberal pacifism, radical patriotism, mass platform, radical culture, radical artisans, secularist movement, household suffrage, radical agitation, republican enthusiasm, radical tradition, bourgeois reformers, social republic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reform League, Reform Union, Louis Blanc, Manchester School, John Bright, New York, Richard Cobden, Julian Harney, People's Paper, Cowen Collection, Frederic Harrison, Joseph Cowen, Bronterre O'Brien, June Days, Reynolds's Newspaper, Civil War, Crimean War, Eastern Post, John Stuart Mill, Holyoake Collection, Louis Napoleon, Northern Star, Friends of Italy, Red Republican, Thorold Rogers New!
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Nations and classes have long (if warily) coexisted in Britain, but national history and class analysis have proven difficult to combine in even the subset of British historiography devoted exclusively to England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labour aristocracy thesis, international patriotism, continental nationalism, continental revolutions, liberal pacifism, radical patriotism, mass platform, radical culture, radical artisans, secularist movement, household suffrage, radical agitation, republican enthusiasm, radical tradition, bourgeois reformers, social republic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reform League, Reform Union, Louis Blanc, Manchester School, John Bright, New York, Richard Cobden, Julian Harney, People's Paper, Cowen Collection, Frederic Harrison, Joseph Cowen, Bronterre O'Brien, June Days, Reynolds's Newspaper, Civil War, Crimean War, Eastern Post, John Stuart Mill, Holyoake Collection, Louis Napoleon, Northern Star, Friends of Italy, Red Republican, Thorold Rogers New!
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- The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson on 7 pages
- Nations and Nationalism (New Perspectives on the Past) by Ernest Gellner on 4 pages
- Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982 by Gareth Stedman Jones on 4 pages
- The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, First Edition by Gertrude Himmelfarb on page 13, page 146, and Back Matter
- International Calvinism 1541-1715 by Menna Prestwich on page 33, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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