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BRITAIN IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

by A.D. Harvey

Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st. 1978

Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper. A detailed study of Britain during the opening years of the nineteenth century - the years of the struggle against Napoleon and the period which saw the final stages of the emergence of the two-party system in parliament. Red boards, gilt title to spine. 395 pages including index.

Light browning to endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and lightly scuffed.

ISBN: 0713410329
Stock no. 1815118

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Contents

  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INRODUCTION
  • PART ONE:
  • THE SOCIAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF POLITICS
  • 1 Oligarchy
  • 2 Voters and Public Opinion
  • 3 The Political Consciousness of the Working Classes
  • 4 Church and Religion
  • 5 Lower Class Unrest before 1803
  • 6 The Ideas of the Jacobins
  • 7 Anti-Reform Propaganda in the 1790's
  • PART TWO
  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL CONFLICT
  • 1 The Addington Ministry
  • 2 The Second Ministry of Pitt
  • 3 The Ministry of All the Talents
  • 4 The Portland Ministry
  • 5 The Revival of Reform
  • 6 The Collapse of the Portland Ministry
  • 7 The Perceval Ministry
  • 8 The Months of Crisis
  • PART THREE
  • WHAT THE POLITICIANS ACHIEVED
  • 1 The Aims and Conduct of the War
  • 2 Government Economic Policy
  • 3 The Economic Consequences of the War

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