The Rise of Democracy in Britain, 1830-1918. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Ian Machin. The Rise of Democracy in Britain, 1830-1918. (British Studies Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. ix, 182. n.p. ISBN 0-312-23544-5.

Ian Machin is well-known for his outstanding scholarship on church and politics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, but this work will stand as his most widely read and useful contribution. It is, in his own words, a "general synthesis" of the evolution toward greater democracy in English politics from 1830 through 1918. Historians and their students will find this an indispensable guide, for it pulls together, ...

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