After Chartism

Class and Nation in English Radical Politics, 1848-1874

Bibliographic Data

ID3598264
AuthorsMichael Dintenfa, Michael Dintenfass, Margot C Finn (0000-0002-0007-1867)
Year1995
Volume26
Issue1
Pages96
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/205562
OpenAlexW2160181359
LanguageEN
Citations received42

This book charts the course of working- and middle-class radical politics in England from the continental revolutions of 1848 to the fall of Gladstone's Liberal government in 1874. The author traces the genealogy of English radicalism from its roots in Protestant Dissent and the seventeenth-century revolutions, but also shows how this shared radical tradition was problematized by middle-class radicals' acceptance of classical liberal economics. She traces the lineaments of this divide by contrasting middle- and working-class responses to the continental revolutions of 1848-9, to the Polish and Italian nationalism of the 1860s, and to the Paris Commune in 1871. She argues that these years witnessed not the relentless liberalization of working-class radical protest in England, but rather a significant diminution of middle-class radicals' commitment to liberal economics. This accommodation contributed to the emergence of the 'New Liberalism' of the 1880s, and helped to shape middle- and working-class responses to the early socialist movement

Class (philosophy) · Epistemology · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US

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