The Historian, January 1st, 1994
By Margot C. Finn. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. 361. $59.95.) This book analyzes British radicalism between the decline of Chartism and the emergence of "New Liberalism." To this end a great mass of primary and secondary sources has been assimilated into an account that is generally lucid and persuasive. The main argument offered is that, in the years after 1848, working"-and middle-class radicalism diverged because of conflicting attitudes towards Cobdenite economics and continental nationalist movements. In the 1860s a rapprochement occurred, with sufficient shifts of a...
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