Baker, James (2013) Review. Review of: The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 (Studies in Modern History). Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. 384pp. £65.00. ISBN 9780230349315. by Baer, Marc. Cultural and Social History . (Submitted)
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Abstract
In the eleven pages which constitute his 'Commencement', Marc Baer reveals the ambitious task facing any biographer of Westminster. In order to understand why what was to late-Georgians 'Radical Westminster' became by the 1880s a bellwether of conservatism, why the 'glue which held together the culture of elections' (p. 10) changed so strikingly, a biographer of Westminster needs not only a command of chronological scope – 1780-1890 in this case – but also thematic breadth. Language, ritual, association, place, personality, violence, democracy, gender, class, and the visual are all encountered, and – Baer suggests – need to be encountered in order to give any such biography sufficient gravitas.
| Item Type: | Review |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | Westminster - Baer - London - Georgian - Victorian |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Humanities > School of History |
| Depositing User: | James Baker |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2012 10:00 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2012 10:01 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31972 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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