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AUGMENTING DEMOCRACY : political movements and constitutional reform during the rise of labour... , 1900-1924

First published in 1999, Andrew Chadwick provides an important new interpretation of British radical, suffrage-feminist and socialist movements during the first quarter of the twentieth century, based on analysis of their visions of democratic constitutional reform.
Print Book, English, 2020
ROUTLEDGE, [S.l.], 2020
History
1 volume.
9781138607118, 1138607118
1124348531
Part 1. A Panoramic Approach. 1. Left and Constitution in the Early-Twentieth Century Britain. 2. Ideas, communication and public political discourse. Part 2. Aristocracy or the People?The Edwardian Constitutional Crisis. 4. Constructing an Anti-Lords Alliance. 4. Crisis and Reform. Part 3. Constitutionalism and Citizenship: The Struggle for the Vote. 5. First Wave Feminism and the Significance of the Vote. 6. Constructing a Suffragist Alliance. 7. War and Reform. Part 4. Equality, Equity and Truth? Proportional Representation. 8. Minorities, Parties and the Progressive Alliance. 9. A Fragile, Partial Alliance.