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Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair
Jon Lawrence
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Description for Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 344 pages, 19 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: AP; HBJD1; JP; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 656.
In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public. Throughout this period, he argues, British politics has been characterized by bruising public rituals intended to bestow legitimacy on politicians by obliging them to face an often irreverent public on broadly equal terms. Face-to-face interaction was central both to the disorderly civic rituals of eighteenth-century politics, and to the Victorian and Edwardian election meeting. Perhaps surprisingly, it also survived in pretty rude health between the wars, despite the emergence ... Read more
In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public. Throughout this period, he argues, British politics has been characterized by bruising public rituals intended to bestow legitimacy on politicians by obliging them to face an often irreverent public on broadly equal terms. Face-to-face interaction was central both to the disorderly civic rituals of eighteenth-century politics, and to the Victorian and Edwardian election meeting. Perhaps surprisingly, it also survived in pretty rude health between the wars, despite the emergence ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
656g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199550128
SKU
V9780199550128
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About Jon Lawrence
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair
[a] readable and scholarly survey of British electoral practice from the eighteenth century to the present day
Martin Pugh, English Historical Review
Electing our Masters is highly recommended reading...contribute[s] significantly to our understanding of the dynamics of modern democratic politics.
Benjamin Schroeder, H-Soz-u-Kult
In Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair, ... Read more
Martin Pugh, English Historical Review
Electing our Masters is highly recommended reading...contribute[s] significantly to our understanding of the dynamics of modern democratic politics.
Benjamin Schroeder, H-Soz-u-Kult
In Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair, ... Read more