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Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885–1910

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  • © 1996

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  1. E. Spencer Wellhofer

    1. University of Denver, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. ‘One Step Broken, The Great Scale’s Destroy’d’

    • E. Spencer Wellhofer
    Pages 1-20

  3. ‘A Deity of Equality’ and ‘Even a Safer Class of the Population’: Debates on Expanding the Polity

    • E. Spencer Wellhofer
    Pages 21-47

  4. ‘Not only a Bad Metaphor’: Classes, Masses and Races in Late Victorian Politics

    • E. Spencer Wellhofer
    Pages 48-78

  5. ‘Comfortable Contemplations’: The Effects of Franchise Expansion on Long Term Social- Partisan Alignments

    • E. Spencer Wellhofer
    Pages 79-102

  6. ‘Our Best Friends’: ShortRun Changes in Issues and Party Alliances

    • E. Spencer Wellhofer
    Pages 103-134

  7. ‘There are Races, as there are Trees’: Challenges to Domestic Empire in Late Victorian Politics

    • E. Spencer Wellhofer
    Pages 135-167

  8. Philosophers, Porters, Parsons and Parvenus

    • E. Spencer Wellhofer
    Pages 168-186

  9. ‘Men Make their own History, but...’ ‘the Chain is Absolutely Continuous and Unbroken’: Continuity and Change in the Transition to Mass Politics

    • E. Spencer Wellhofer
    Pages 187-197

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 198-264
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Late Victorian Britain witnessed three challenges to its eighteenth-century Republican Ideal: democracy, capitalism and ethnic nationalism. Calling upon the languages and debates of the period, the book examines contending images of the social order with new data analytic techniques and information. Joining the contextual study of history to advanced analytic techniques refutes standard interpretations and provides a more complete portrait of the period. The conclusions on democratic transition have important implications for understanding today's efforts to reap democracy's rewards.

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  • University of Denver, USA

    E. Spencer Wellhofer

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