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Chartism:

A New History
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Palgrave Macmillan, Sep 15, 2007 - History - 421 pages
Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilized over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity.

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User Review  - Jane Walker - Goodreads

It's often asked why Britain never had a revolution in the 18th or 19th centuries, as so many other countries did. Chase's excellent book goes a long way to answering that. He describes in detail the ... Read full review

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Malcolm Chase is Reader in Labour History at the University of Leeds.

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