Aristocratic government in the Age of Reform
Whigs and Liberals, 1830-1852
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Word Count
76,750 words, Guess
Page Count
307 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2204604M
- ISBN-100198217811
- OCLC Control Number20670553
- Library of Congress Control Number89026535
- LibraryThing420367
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- Goodreads494290
Classifications
- DDC320.941/09/034
- LCCDA550 .M34 1990
Description
This book challenges the view that there was a smooth and inevitable progression towards liberalism in early nineteenth-century England. It examines the argument of the high whigs that the landed aristocracy still had a positive contribution to make to the welfare of the people. This argument gained significance as the laissez-faire state met with serious reverses in the 1830s and 1840s, when the bulk of the people proved unwilling to accept the "compromise" forged between the middle classes and other sections of the landed elite, and mass movements for political and social reform proliferated. Drawing on a rich variety of original sources, Mandler provides a vivid image of the high aristocracy at the peak of its wealth and power, and offers a provocative and unique analysis of how their rejection of middle-class manners helped them to govern Britain in two troubled decades of social unrest.
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