London Politics, 1760-1914 [Hardcover]

This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-equality preoccupations of the provinces which currently dominate scholarly literature. As these essays reveal, the capital remained more concerned with older struggles for political independence. By highlighting the inability of existing accounts to accommodate metropolitan distinctiveness, the collection aims to stimulate a major reappraisal not of London politics alone, but of Victorian political history more generally.List of Tables List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Cragoe & A.Taylor Metropolitan 'Radicalism' and Electoral Independence, 1760-1820; M.McCormack 'Policing the Peelers': Parliament, the Public and the Metropolitan Police, 1829-33; D.Campion Metropolitan Whiggery, 1832-55; B.Weinstein Post-Chartism: Metropolitan Perspectives on the Chartist Movement in Decline, 1848-80; A.Taylor Secularism in the City: Geographies of Dissidence and the Importance of Radical Culture in the Metropolis; D.Nash Transcending the Metropolis: London and Provincial Popular Radicalism, 1860-75; D.Mares From 'First Constituency of the Empire' to 'Citadel of Reaction': Westminster, 1800-90; M.Baer Late Victorian and Edwardian 'Slum Conservatism': How Different were the Politics of the London Poor?; M.Brodie 'In Darkest Lambeth': Henry Morton Stanley and the Imperial Politics of London Unionism; A.Windscheffel London-over-the-border: Politics in Suburban Walthamstow, 1870-1914; T.Cooper Conclusion; M.Cragoe & A.Taylor

'One of the book's attractions is its wide range of political concerns.' - Jerry White, Urban History

'...the editors are to be congratulated for putting together a coherent set of essays that make a substantial contribution to the historiography of both popular politics and London. This volume deserves to be widely readlc