LEADER 03642nam 22006612 450 001 9910463114703321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-27250-5 010 $a1-139-88935-4 010 $a1-107-27189-4 010 $a1-107-27847-3 010 $a1-107-27398-6 010 $a1-107-27522-9 010 $a1-139-20861-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000400456 035 $a(EBL)1303660 035 $a(OCoLC)854975211 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949800 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12467002 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949800 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11004673 035 $a(PQKB)11343590 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139208611 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1303660 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1303660 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10740454 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL508533 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000400456 100 $a20111206d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBritish political culture and the idea of 'public opinion', 1867-1914 /$fJames Thompson$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 293 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-02679-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction: rethinking public opinion in late nineteenth-century Britain -- 1. An open demos? The public and the question of membership -- 2. The ghost in the machine: locating public opinion -- 3. The mind of the nation? Reason and the public -- 4. Political economy and the idea of 'public opinion' -- 5. Representing labour: the labour movement, politics and the public -- 6. Conclusion: 'public opinion' and political culture in Britain, 1870-1914. 330 $aNewspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and books all reflect the ubiquity of 'public opinion' in political discourse in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Through close attention to debates across the political spectrum, James Thompson charts the ways in which Britons sought to locate 'public opinion' in an era prior to polling. He shows that 'public opinion' was the principal term through which the link between the social and the political was interrogated, charted and contested and charts how the widespread conviction that the public was growing in power raised significant issues about the kind of polity emerging in Britain. He also examines how the early Labour party negotiated the language of 'public opinion' and sought to articulate Labour interests in relation to those of the public. In so doing he sheds important new light on the character of Britain's liberal political culture and on Labour's place in and relationship to that culture. 517 3 $aBritish Political Culture & the Idea of 'Public Opinion', 1867-1914 606 $aPolitical culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPublic opinion$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPress$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory. 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory. 615 0$aPress$xHistory. 676 $a306.20941/09034 700 $aThompson$b James$f1973-$01037744 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463114703321 996 $aBritish political culture and the idea of 'public opinion', 1867-1914$92458899 997 $aUNINA