Download or read book Agitators and Promoters in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli written by Howard LeRoy Malchow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, Agitators and Promoters in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli brings together the lives of thousands of persons, some famous, most modest and obscure, who were joined a century ago in pursuit of causes promising, a more just world which embodied much of the life and substance of the politics of during this time of transition. The book focuses on not simply the political Establishment but the members of government and legislature with their paid functionaries and party hacks, and much of the politicised sub-elite of a generation, including some three thousand persons from many layers of Victorian life. These are the organisers and leaders, the agitators and promoters of a host of causes.