Jon Lawrence

Electing Our Masters

The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair

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Produktbeschreibung

An engaging history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, highlighting how the television age has altered the interaction of politicians and public and asking what the media must now do to reinvigorate public politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9780199550128
• ISBN-10: 0199550123
• Artikelnr.: 25561841

Autorenporträt

Jon Lawrence is lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Emmanuel College. He has written widely on the social, political and cultural history of modern Britain, and is the author of Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867-1914 (1998) and, with Miles Taylor, Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820 (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: The Spirit of the Hustings
* 1: John Bull at the Hustings: Electoral Politics from the Ancien
Regime to the Second Reform Act
* 2: The Fall of the Hustings and the Rise of the Platform
* 3: Money, Men, and Mayhem: Electoral Politics before the First World
War
* 4: War, Women, and the 'Silent Majority'
* 5: Towards the New Jerusalem
* 6: The Decline of the Platform
* 7: The Local Campaign in the Television Age
* 8: Broadcasting Politics
* 9: The Public Banished?
* Bibliography
* Index