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Politics and the People
James Vernon
其他書名
A Study in English Political Culture, 1815-1867
出版Cambridge University Press, 1993-09-02
主題History / Europe / WesternHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)History / Modern / GeneralPolitical Science / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN05214209039780521420907
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wc5OHqnMrscC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This ambitious and provocative study provides a unique narrative of nineteenth-century English political history. Based on extensive research the book draws on critical theory to read and interpret a vast range of oral, visual and printed sources, in an attempt to expand our conception of the politics of the period. Read in the context of such sources, nineteenth-century English politics becomes resolved into a story about the struggle to define the nation's constitution, past, present and future. It suggests the existence of a popular strain of English libertarian politics, albeit one whose radical and democratic potential was gradually closed down. In short, despite the invention of a liberal constitution in this period, politics became less (not more) democratic, a lesson which the author sees as pertinent for many struggling to live in, or establish, liberal democratic constitutions in our own times.