Entrepreneurial politics in mid-Victorian Britain / G.R. Searle.

Author
Searle, G. R. (Geoffrey Russell) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Description
viii, 346 pages ; 24 cm

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    • 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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-337) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Class Politics in the 1840s
    • 2. Financial Reform, 1848-1853
    • 3. The Crimean War and Administrative Reform
    • 4. The Primacy of Palmerston? 1855-1865
    • 5. The Development of Commercial Politics, 1850-1870
    • 6. Parliamentary Reform
    • 7. The Problem of Education
    • 8. The Labour Problem.
    ISBN
    0198203578
    LCCN
    92028432
    OCLC
    26352740
    RCP
    C - S
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