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The Vote
Paul Foot
其他書名
How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined
出版
Verso Books
, 2024-05-28
主題
History / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
ISBN
1804294691
9781804294697
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NTPTEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The dramatic story of the peoples' fight for the right to vote in Britain
The culmination of a lifetime's work by the great journalist and historian Paul Foot,
The Vote
tells the thrilling story of the hard, long-fought struggle for the right to vote in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed.
In the tradition of "history from below," Paul Foot examines the great democratic debates that dominated the fight for electoral democracy. Taking readers from the smoke-filled church of the Putney debates, to the dramatic arguments between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to the rise of Chartism and the struggles for votes for women.
Throughout, Foot shows how vested interested first delayed and then hobbled the progress of parliamentary democracy. Concentrating on the vital role played by direct action, he shows how rank-and-file resistance to ruling-class injustice was followed by retreat into parliamentary impotence. Into the twentieth-century, Foot exposes the gaps between the promises of a succession of Labour governments and their actions once in power, and its abandonment of any aspiration to economic democracy.
A gripping work of narrative history, written in Paul Foot's inimitable energy and engaged style, this book is a classic work of history, and a must-read for anyone interested in how today's political scene was formed.