Reform!, the fight for the 1832 Reform Act, Edward Pearce
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Reform!, the fight for the 1832 Reform Act, Edward Pearce
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-333) and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Reform!
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bibliography
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52829896
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Edward Pearce
Sub title
the fight for the 1832 Reform Act
Summary
It might sound like the stuff of dull school books, but this is a vivid and dramatic account of the gruelling parliamentary struggle to pass a radical reform act in Britain at a time of extreme political frustration and social unrest
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- 1. The Old system -- 2. Tory disintegration, 1827-30 -- 3. The first Bill -- 4. On to the vote -- 5. Gascoyne's motion, dissolution and election -- 6. The second Bill -- 7. The Lords: the outcome -- 8. Bristol, Birmingham and after -- 9. The second Bill and hopes for peer creation -- 10. Back in the Lords -- 11. The Bill in the Lords -- 12. The days of May
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