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1 Online-Ressource (x, 421 pages)
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0719060877
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0719060869
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1847791360
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9780719060878
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9780719060861
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9781847791368
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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 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. Chartism: A
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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-405) and index
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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ISBN 9780719060878
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ISBN 0719060877
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chase, Malcolm Chartism Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2007
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