Download or read book London Politics, 1760-1914 written by M. Cragoe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-equality preoccupations of the provinces which currently dominate scholarly literature. As these essays reveal, the capital remained more concerned with older struggles for political independence. By highlighting the inability of existing accounts to accommodate metropolitan distinctiveness, the collection aims to stimulate a major reappraisal not of London politics alone, but of Victorian political history more generally.