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Author Lawrence, Jon, 1961-

Title Speaking for the people : party, language and popular politics in England, 1867-1914 / Jon Lawrence
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : map
Contents pt. I. Rethinking popular politics. 1. From the rise of 'demos' to the 'rise of class'. 2. Working-class homogeneity reconsidered. 3. Relocating popular politics -- pt. II. A local study: Wolverhampton, c. 1860-1914. 4. Liberal hegemony and its critics. 5. Popular Toryism and the origins of Labour politics. 6. Labour and the working class, 1890-1914 -- pt. III. Party games, 1885-1914. 7. Popular politics and the limitations of party. 8. The fall and rise of popular Liberalism, 1886-1906. 9. Labour roots, Labour voices, Labour myths
Summary Speaking for the People, first published in 1998, draws our attention to the problematic nature of politicians' claims to represent others, and in doing so it challenges conventional ideas about both the rise of class politics, and the triumph of party between 1867 and 1914. The book emphasises the strongly gendered nature of party politics before the First World War, and suggests that historians have greatly underestimated the continuing importance of the 'politics of place'. Most importantly, however, Speaking for the People argues that we must break away from teleological notions such as the 'modernisation' of politics, the taming of the 'popular', or the rise of class. Only then will we understand the shifting currents of popular politics. Speaking for the People represents a major challenge to the ways in which historians and political scientists have studied the interaction between party politics and popular political cultures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-275) and index
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Print version record
Subject English language -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
Political parties -- Great Britain -- History
Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History
Political oratory -- Great Britain
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
English language -- Political aspects
Political oratory
Political parties
Politics and government
Popular culture
Partei
Politik
Öffentliche Meinung
Politieke partijen.
Arbeidersklasse.
Langage politique.
Éloquence politique -- Grande-Bretagne.
Partis politiques -- Langage -- Grande-Bretagne.
Culture populaire -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
Geschichte (1867-1914)
Geschichte 1867-1914.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056914
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1901-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056917
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Grande-Bretagne -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1837-1901.
Grande-Bretagne -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1901-1936.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511002092
9780511002090
9780511585661
0511585667