{"product_id":"politics-without-democracy-isbn-9780631218128","title":"Politics without Democracy","description":"\u003ci\u003ePolitics Without Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife.  Acknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eMap: Some Places.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the First Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the Second Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Pressure from Without, 1815-65:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Transformation of Party.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Renewal and Consolidation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Mechanics of Stability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Pressure from Within, 1865-1914:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Occupying the Centre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Conservative Ascendancy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Breaking the Mould?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Some People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResearch Theses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimary Sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Refreshing, inspiring and elegant, there are few historians active today who could write at once as stimulatingly and as readably.\" \u003ci\u003eHistorical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The challenge implicit in Bentley's task is great. His response is witty, intellectually exciting, stylistically seductive, and itself stands as a challenge to broad perspectives on Victorian politics.\" \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Bentley writes with a wide fund of knowledge; his judgements are shrewd and always worth considering. Encrusted orthodoxies are often challenged and negative home truths are brought into the open.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael Bentley\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews.  \u003ci\u003ePolitics Without Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife.  \u003cp\u003eProfessor Bentley takes the reader into the minds of the politicians of the day, men such as Wellington, Peel, Disraeli, Salisbury and Asquith, as they and their colleagues did their best to control, manipulate (and often retard) the onset of \"democracy\". Combining a deep personal knowledge of political history with the latest research he presents a highly original account of how Britain was transformed from a society governed by the landed gentry to one responsive to the pressures of the newly-industrialized masses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989807841509,"sku":"NP9780631218128","price":114.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631218128.jpg?v=1761785545","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/politics-without-democracy-isbn-9780631218128","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}