Electing Our Masters : The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair.
Title:
Electing Our Masters : The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair.
Author:
Lawrence, Jon.
ISBN:
9780191567766
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Spirit of the Hustings -- 1. John Bull at the Hustings: Electoral Politics from the Ancien Regime to the Second Reform Act -- 2. The Fall of the Hustings and the Rise of the Platform -- 3. Money, Men, and Mayhem: Electoral Politics before the First World War -- 4. War, Women, and the 'Silent Majority' -- 5. Towards the New Jerusalem -- 6. The Decline of the Platform -- 7. The Local Campaign in the Television Age -- 8. Broadcasting Politics -- 9. The Public Banished? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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