{"product_id":"politics-without-democracy-england-1815-1918-hardback-9780631218128","title":"Politics without Democracy; England 1815-1918 (Hardback) 9780631218128","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePolitics without Democracy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEngland 1815-1918\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Bentley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631218128, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 October 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e355 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.8 x 3.1 cm, 0.635 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Refreshing, inspiring and elegant, there are few historians active today who could write at once as stimulatingly and as readably.\" \u003ci\u003eHistorical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The challenge implicit in Bentley's task is great. His response is witty, intellectually exciting, stylistically seductive, and itself stands as a challenge to broad perspectives on Victorian politics.\" \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Bentley writes with a wide fund of knowledge; his judgements are shrewd and always worth considering. Encrusted orthodoxies are often challenged and negative home truths are brought into the open.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitics Without Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eMap: Some Places.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the First Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the Second Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Pressure from Without, 1815-65:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Transformation of Party.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Renewal and Consolidation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Mechanics of Stability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Pressure from Within, 1865-1914:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Occupying the Centre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Conservative Ascendancy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Breaking the Mould?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Some People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResearch Theses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimary Sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52515862839576,"sku":"9780631218128","price":88.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631218128.jpg?v=1786669805","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/politics-without-democracy-england-1815-1918-hardback-9780631218128","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}