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Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised 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 ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chase, Malcolm
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
1800-1901
Chartism.
Chartisme.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Chartism
Politics and government
Social conditions
Politics and Government.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1837-1901.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1837-1901.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • May-September 1838: 'I hold in my hand a charter
  • the people's charter'
  • October-December 1838: 'The people are up'
  • January-July 1839: The people's parliament'
  • July-November 1839: 'Extreme excitement and apprehension'
  • November 1839-January 1840: After Newport
  • February 1840-December 1841: 'The charter and nothing less'
  • 1842: 'Toasting muffins at a volcano'
  • 1843-1846: Doldrums years
  • July 1846-April 1848: 'A time to make men politicians'
  • April 1848-1852: 'Decent revolutionaries'?
  • Chartist lives: 'Ever present to the progressive mind'.

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