Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife.
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"Refreshing, inspiring and elegant, there are few historians active today who could write at once as stimulatingly and as readably." Historical Journal
"The challenge implicit in Bentley's task is great. His response is witty, intellectually exciting, stylistically seductive, and itself stands as a challenge to broad perspectives on Victorian politics." Victorian Studies
"Bentley writes with a wide fund of knowledge; his judgements are shrewd and always worth considering. Encrusted orthodoxies are often challenged and negative home truths are brought into the open." Times Higher Education Supplement
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Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife.
Professor Bentley takes the reader into the minds of the politicians of the day, men such as Wellington, Peel, Disraeli, Salisbury and Asquith, as they and their colleagues did their best to control, manipulate (and often retard) the onset of "democracy". Combining a deep personal knowledge of political history with the latest research he presents a highly original account of how Britain was transformed from a society governed by the landed gentry to one responsive to the pressures of the newly-industrialized masses.
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Moscow saved, Prussia liberated, Napoleon surrounded: the European war had reached its end-game by the beginning of 1814. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
household suffrage, paper duties, philosophic radicals, autumn session, county franchise, junior office, political correspondence, reformed parliament, church rates, parliament bill, colonial minister Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Home Rule, House of Commons, Lloyd George, House of Lords, Foreign Office, Home Office, The Times, Irish Church, Board of Trade, Lord John Russell, South Africa, Duke of Wellington, Earl of Derby, Edward Grey, Anti-Corn Law League, Bonar Law, Colonial Office, Milner Gibson, War Office, Catholic Association, Duke of Devonshire, India Office, Triple Alliance, West Riding, Earl Spencer New!
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household suffrage, paper duties, philosophic radicals, autumn session, county franchise, junior office, political correspondence, reformed parliament, church rates, parliament bill, colonial minister Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Home Rule, House of Commons, Lloyd George, House of Lords, Foreign Office, Home Office, The Times, Irish Church, Board of Trade, Lord John Russell, South Africa, Duke of Wellington, Earl of Derby, Edward Grey, Anti-Corn Law League, Bonar Law, Colonial Office, Milner Gibson, War Office, Catholic Association, Duke of Devonshire, India Office, Triple Alliance, West Riding, Earl Spencer New!
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