Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19985103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G R Searle (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Pages | 346 |
| Publication date | 1993-03-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Entrepreneurial politics in mid-Victorian Britain (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203575.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4205157747 |
| Open Library | OL1724729M |
| ISBN | 9780198203575 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Historians have long debated the issue of why Britain did not experience a ‘middle-class revolution’. In the mid-Victorian years, in the aftermath of the Great Reform Act and the repeal of the Corn Laws, it seemed that a decisive shift of power from the aristocracy to the middle class might take place. This book shows how many MPs from business backgrounds, the so-called ‘entrepreneurial Radicals’, came to Westminster determined to impose their own values and priorities on national life. Some wanted to return public manufacturing establishments to private ownership; others hoped to create an ‘educational market’. Nearly all of them worried about how best to safeguard the truths of political economy should the franchise be extended to the propertyless masses. Their partial successes and many failures helped determine the political culture of modern Britain
Aristocracy (class) · Business · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Franchise · Middle class · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Repeal · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · 1837-1901 · 19th century · Entrepreneurship · Great britain · Political activity · politics and government
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2023 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |