Church, Chapel and Party: Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in Nineteenth-Century England

Church, Chapel and Party: Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in Nineteenth-Century England
ISBN-10
0230590586
ISBN-13
9780230590588
Category
History
Pages
295
Language
English
Published
2008-01-23
Publisher
Springer
Author
Richard D. Floyd

Description

Through close examination of dozens of electoral contests in carefully chosen constituencies, the author demonstrates that the fundamental division separating the burgeoning liberal and conservative parties in England in the 1830s and 1840s was religion, and that this controversy was what created a perceptible two-party system in British politics.

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