Aristocracy and People: Britain, 1815-1865One of the foremost scholars of nineteenthâe"century England, Gash has written a new interpretation of the years 1815 to 1865 that takes industrialization off center stage as the great dramatic event in national life. Gash integrates other equally significant changes the postwar slump in trade and manufacturing, the unprecedented expansion of population, and the increasing urbanization. He argues that the singular ability of the industrial revolution to produce wealth and skills enabled England to cope with impending social catastrophe. Gash also reintroduces the importance of politics in explaining events, and he challenges the recent historical interpretations giving primacy to class history and class consciousness. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Country and People | 9 |
Government and Religion | 43 |
The Peterloo Years | 70 |
The Government and the State of the Nation | 102 |
The Constitutional Revolution | 129 |
Parties and Politics | 156 |
The Condition of England Question | 187 |
Peels Decade | 220 |
The Decline of Party Politics | 250 |
Safeguard and Security | 283 |
Taking Stock in 1865 | 319 |
Bibliography | 351 |
Appendices | 364 |
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