The Chartist movement / by the late Mark Hovell ... ed. and completed, with a memoir, by Professor T.F. Tout
Manchester London ; New York : University Press ; Longmans, Green & Co., 1943. Second Edition. Pen inscribed by previous owner. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #390657
Physical description: xxxvii, 327 pages : frontispiece portrait ; 20 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Contents: The charter and its origin -- The industrial revolution and its consequences -- The rise of anti-capitalist economics and social revolutionary theory -- The London working men's association and the people's charter (1836-1839) -- The agitation against the new poor law (1834-1838) -- The revival of the Birmingham political union (1837-1838) -- The People's parliament (1838-1839) -- The government prepares for action (1839) -- The convention at Birmingham (1839) -- The petition in the commons : end of the convention (1839) -- Sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion (1839-1840) -- The chartist revival (1840-1841) -- Chartism versus free trade (1842-1844) -- O'Connorism (1841-1842) -- False doctrine, heresy, and schism (1841-1842) -- O'Connor's breach with Lovett (1841) -- The elimination of O'Brien (1841-1842) -- The complete suffrage movement (1842) -- The national petition of 1842 -- The decline of chartism (1842-1853) -- The plug plot and its consequences (1842-1843) -- O'Connor's land scheme and the chartist revival (1842-1847) -- Chartism and the revolution of 1848 -- The last stages of chartism (1849-1858) -- The place of chartism in history. Subjects: Chartism.
Chartism History. Labor movement Great Britain.
Political history England 1925. England, political history 1925. Labor.
Working class History.
Europe Labor. Industrial relations Great Britain.
Labor movement Great Britain. Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901. Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901. Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.
Chartism.
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