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The Vote - Paul Foot

The Vote

How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
528 Seiten
2024 | New edition
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-80429-469-7 (ISBN)
CHF 34,90 inkl. MwSt
The British peoples' dramatic struggle for the right to vote
The culmination of a lifetime's work by the celebrated journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of how the universal franchise was secured in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed. Foot takes readers from the smoke-filled church of the Putney Debates to the incendiary arguments between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to the rise of Chartism and the fight for women's suffrage. Throughout, Foot shows how vested interests first delayed and then hobbled the progress of democracy.

Looking to the twentieth century, Foot exposes the gaps between the promises of a succession of Labour governments and their actions once in power, and the party's abandonment of any aspiration to economic democracy.

Written with Paul Foot's inimitable energy and engaging style, this is a classic work of history and a must-read for anyone interested in the origins of today's political scene.

Paul Foot was the outstanding left-wing journalist of his generation. For many years he was an investigative journalist for the Daily Mirror. In his later years he wrote for Private Eye and the Guardian. His many books include The Politics of Harold Wilson and Murder at the Farm. Paul Foot died in July 2004.

Introduction

PART I: How the Vote was Won
1647: Crows and Eagles at Putney
1790-1832: The Not-So-Great Reform Act
Revolt of the Chartists
The Leap in the Dark
Women

PART 2: How the Vote was Undermined
1918-18: Mond's Manacles
The Grey Decade
1940-51: The Stupendous Convulsion
Unstable Compound I: 1951-70
Unstable Compound 2: 1970-79
New Labour = Old Tory: The Tory Counter-attack and the Labour Surrender
Conclusion: Their Democracy and Ours

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Gewicht 578 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
ISBN-10 1-80429-469-1 / 1804294691
ISBN-13 978-1-80429-469-7 / 9781804294697
Zustand Neuware
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