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020			_a9781139208611 (ebook)
020			_z9781107026797 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aJN216 _b.T46 2013
082	0	0	_a306.20941/09034 _223
100	1		_aThompson, James, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBritish Political Culture and the Idea of ‘Public Opinion', 1867–1914 / _cJames Thompson.
246	3		_aBritish Political Culture & the Idea of ‘Public Opinion', 1867–1914
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (299 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aNewspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and books all reflect the ubiquity of 'public opinion' in political discourse in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Through close attention to debates across the political spectrum, James Thompson charts the ways in which Britons sought to locate 'public opinion' in an era prior to polling. He shows that 'public opinion' was the principal term through which the link between the social and the political was interrogated, charted and contested and charts how the widespread conviction that the public was growing in power raised significant issues about the kind of polity emerging in Britain. He also examines how the early Labour party negotiated the language of 'public opinion' and sought to articulate Labour interests in relation to those of the public. In so doing he sheds important new light on the character of Britain's liberal political culture and on Labour's place in and relationship to that culture.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107026797
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139208611
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37589 _d37589