Influence, Opinion and Political Idioms in Reformed England : Case Studies from the North East 1832-1874. (Classics in Social and Economic History)

A significant and influential study of how the Victorian system of popular political democracy actually worked. It examines the precise nature in town and country, and in a variety of situations. It deals with the impact, and in what proportions of `influence', the purse, and the exercise of the individual political conscience.