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British political culture and the idea of 'public opinion', 1867-1914James Thompson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461936640
  • 9781107275225
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JN216 .B758 2013
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Contents:
Subject: An examination of how 'public opinion' functioned as a concept in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Writing conceptual histories; Histories of 'public opinion'; 1 An open demos? The public and the question of membership; Personifying the public: from the man on the omnibus to the man in the street; The consuming public; The thinking public; Conclusion; 2 'The ghost in the machine': Locating public opinion; Press; Platform; Petition; Conclusion; 3 The mind of the nation? Reason and the public; Franchise debates and public reason; Party organisation, one-man rule and the character of the public; Crowd psychology, war and the public mind

4 Political economy and the idea of 'public opinion'5 Representing labour: The Labour movement, politics and the public; Imagining the labour interest; Labour and 'the public'; Speaking for the public?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

An examination of how 'public opinion' functioned as a concept in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.

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