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Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain

By Searle, G. R.

Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain Business, Finance & Career

Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
356
Release Date:
1993-05-27
Publication Date:
2001-06-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198203578
ISBN13:
9780198203575
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
729 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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