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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450621203321

Titolo

Political Parties 1783-1867

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, Oct. 1985

Florence, : Taylor & Francis Group [distributor]

ISBN

1-135-83561-6

1-282-32499-3

9786612324994

0-203-12958-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (65 p.)

Collana

Lancaster pamphlets

Disciplina

324.241009

328.41

Soggetti

Political parties - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Political parties - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain Politics and government 1760-1820

Great Britain Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (p. 54-55).

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgement and Note; Introduction; King, Lords and Commons in late eighteenth-century Britain; Party and party ideology to 1789; Parties and politics in the shadow of the French Revolution, 1788-1812; The decline of royan influence; stability, religion and the reform; The establishment of two-party politics, 1832-46; Party organisation and identity; Appendix; Further reading

Sommario/riassunto

The theme of Professor Evan's book is the growth of a recognizable modern party system from the much looser and often family-based attachments of the eighteenth century. He examines the significance of the terms 'Whig' and 'Tory' in the later eighteenth century and the growth of a party aligment between 1788  and 1812 -  a period in which war was a major factor in polarization. He discusses the years of Tory hegemony under Liverpool and the decline of the independent



member, and then takes as his main themes the transition from Whigs to Liberals and from Tories to Conservatives in the period o