The Transformation of Urban Liberalism: Party Politics and Urban Governance in Late Nineteenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9781138357617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str.

James R. Moore

Opis

The Transformation of Urban Liberalism re-evaluates the dramatic and turbulent political decade following the 'Third Reform Act', and questions whether the Liberal Party's political heartlands - the urban boroughs - really were in decline. In contrast to some recent studies, it does not see electoral reform, the Irish Home Rule crisis and the challenge of socialism as representing a fundamental threat to the integrity of the party.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: The slow death of liberal England? Part I Reform and the Urban Radical Tradition: The rise of Manchester radicalism; Leicester liberalism: an uneasy alliance. Part II The Home Rule Crisis in the Towns: Manchester and the Home Rule crisis; Leicester: unionism marginalised?. Part III Municipal Government Transformed?: Municipal scandals and realignment; The 'politicisation' of the town hall. Part IV The Town and the Suburbs: Manchester's suburban radicalism; Incorporation - an agent of radicalism?. Part V The Challenge of Progressivism: Manchester and the rise of progressivism; The Labour challenge in Leicester. Conclusion: The road to New Liberalism. Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

James R. Moore