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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461936640
  • 1461936640
  • 9781107275225
  • 1107275229
  • 9781139208611
  • 1139208616
  • 1107026792
  • 9781107026797
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: British Political Culture and the Idea of 'Public Opinion', 1867-1914.DDC classification:
  • 306.20941/09034 306.2094109034 941.081 23
LOC classification:
  • JN216 .T46 2013eb
Other classification:
  • HIS015000
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Contents:
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.
Summary: An examination of how 'public opinion' functioned as a concept in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.
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Includes bibliographical references 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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