London Politics, 1760-1914

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Matthew Cragoe, Antony Taylor

   Pages 1-17

3. Metropolitan ‘Radicalism’ and Electoral Independence, 1760–1820

   • Matthew McCormack

   Pages 18-37

4. ‘Policing the Peelers’: Parliament, the Public, and the Metropolitan Police, 1829–33

   • David A. Campion

   Pages 38-56

5. Metropolitan Whiggery, 1832–55

   • Ben Weinstein

   Pages 57-74

6. Post-Chartism: Metropolitan Perspectives on the Chartist Movement in Decline 1848–80

   • Antony Taylor

   Pages 75-96

7. Secularism in the City: Geographies of Dissidence and the Importance of Radical Culture in the Metropolis

   • David Nash

   Pages 97-120

8. Transcending the Metropolis: London and Provincial Popular Radicalism, c. 1860–75

   • Detlev Mares

   Pages 121-143

9. From ‘First Constituency of the Empire’ to ‘Citadel of Reaction’: Westminster, 1800–90

   • Marc Baer

   Pages 144-165

10. Late Victorian and Edwardian ‘Slum Conservatism’: How Different were the Politics of the London Poor?

    • Marc Brodie

    Pages 166-190

11. ‘In Darkest Lambeth’: Henry Morton Stanley and the Imperial Politics of London Unionism

    • Alex Windscheffel

    Pages 191-210

12. London-over-the-border: Politics in Suburban Walthamstow, 1870–1914

    • Timothy Cooper

    Pages 211-232

13. Conclusion

    • Matthew Cragoe, Antony Taylor

    Pages 233-242

14. Back Matter

    Pages 243-250

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This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-equality preoccupations of the provinces which currently dominate scholarly literature. As these essays reveal, the capital remained more concerned with older struggles for political independence. By highlighting the inability of existing accounts to accommodate metropolitan distinctiveness, the collection aims to stimulate a major reappraisal not of London politics alone, but of Victorian political history more generally.

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'One of the book's attractions is its wide range of political concerns.' - Jerry White, Urban History

'...the editors are to be congratulated for putting together a coherent set of essays that make a substantial contribution to the historiography of both popular politics and London. This volume deserves to be widely read, and not just by political historians. Social and cultural historians will find much in this collection that reinforces the image of London as a national and imperial metropolis; as a place of conflict over space, class and religion; and as an arena for anxieties surrounding gender and poverty. Political historians will find rich pickings, especially for the way in which several of the essays problemise popular radicalism, revealing it to be a heterogeneous, even incoherent, political movement.' - Matthew Roberts, Parliamentary History

• University of Hertfordshire, UK

  Matthew Cragoe

• Sheffield Hallam University, UK

  Antony Taylor

MARC BAER Professor of History, Hope College, Michigan, USA DAVID CAMPION Assistant Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA TIM COOPER Researcher, St Andrew's University, UK DETLEV MARES Lecturer, Institute of History, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany MATTHEW McCORMACK Lecturer in History, University College Northampton, UK DAVID NASH Reader in History, Oxford Brookes University, UK BEN WEINSTEIN Researcher ALEX WINDSCHEFFEL Lecturer in Modern British History, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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