A reflective analysis of the contests for power between landowners and representatives of manufacturing and trading capital at the time of the great Reform Act and the repeal of the Corn Laws. The text aims to prove that this rivalry led to the modern British party system.
Party and Politics, 1830-52 Summary
Party and Politics, 1830-52 by Robert Stewart
'...Undergraduate and sixth-form students will undoubtedly benefit from his lucid and critical commentary.' Martin Pugh, History
Table of Contents
The Old Order - The Great Reform Act - The Structure of Post- Reform Politics - The Whig Decade - Peel and the New Conservatism - Free Trade and its Aftermath - Reform and the Dispossessed - Notes - Bibliography - Index
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