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Parliament: The Biography (Volume II - Reform)
Engelsk Paperback
Parliament: The Biography (Volume II - Reform)
Engelsk Paperback

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Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose – and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won for the working classes and, eventually, for women. The world was torn apart by two extraordinarily bloody wars. And individual politicians were cheered for their altruism or their bravery and jeered for their sexual or financial misdemeanours.
This second volume of Chris Bryant’s majestic Parliament: The Biography has a cast of characters that includes some of British history’s most famous names: the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher. Its recurring theme is reform and innovation, but it also lays bare obsessive respect for the past and a dedication to evolution rather than revolution, which has left us with a fudged constitution still perilously dependent on custom, convention and gentlemen’s agreements.
This is riveting, flawlessly researched and accessible popular history for anyone with an interest in why modern Britain is the nation it is today.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
496
ISBN-13:
9780552779968
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0552779962
Udg. Dato:
5 nov 2015
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
130mm
Forlag:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
5 nov 2015
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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