The Transition to Democracy in Victorian England
- 1 August 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Review of Social History
- Vol. 6 (2) , 226-248
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859000001838
Abstract
“The organization and the establishment of democracy in Christendom”, de Tocqueville wrote in 1835, “is the great political problem of the time.” Nowhere was the problem more urgent than in England, whose industrial towns were soon to be torn by intense class conflict. Yet England resolved the tensions of the 1830's and 1840's, and went on to build a tough and supple political democracy in a massively undemocratic society.Keywords
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