Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Part I. Introduction: 1. The politics of change; Part II. Formative Influences: 2. Manchester School to Tory Democracy; 3. The Conservative Party at prayer; 4. Cotton; Part III. The Terms of the Contest: 5. The pale of the Constitution; 6. The politics of the street; Part IV. The Reconstitution of Liberal Lancashire: 7. C. P. Scott and Progressivism; 8. The sinews of war; 9. Men of light and leading; Part V. Fields of Recruitment: 10. Communal politics; 11. The rise and fall of the Free Traders; 12. Labour; Part VI. Going to the Country: 13. The core of the arguement; 14. Vox populi; Part VII. Conclusion: 15 Edwardian Progressivism; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. The politics of change; Part II. 2 Manchester School to Tory Democracy; 3. The Conservative Party at prayer; 4. Cotton; Part III. The Tems of the Conquest: 5. The pale of the constitution; 6. The politics of the street; Part IV. The Reconstitution of Liberal Lancashire: 7. C. P. Scott and Progressivism; 8. The sinews of war; 9. Men of light and leading; Part V. Fields of Recruitment: 10. Communal politics; 11. The rise and fall of the Free Traders; 12. Labour; Part VI. Going to the Country: 13. The core of the arguement; 14. Vox populi; Part VII. Conclusion: 15 Edwardian Progressivism.

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This book calls into question many of the conventional assumptions about British politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.