Roberts owen editors (2 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. Paperback, F. 192pp, b/w illustrations, a fine copy. Essays on all aspects of Urban history, architecture, sociology & history. This issue with eight essays on the urban history of Wales. 425 grams.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ashton, Owen, Robert Fyson and Stephen Roberts, editors. The Chartist legacy / foreword by Asa Briggs. Rendlesham : Merlin Press, 1999. Paperback, VG, with light shelfwear to edges and small creases at front opening corners. Binding strong and square. xvi, 297pp., contents clean and bright. Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in the United Kingdom that erupted from 1838 to 1857 and was strongest in 1839, 1842 and 1848. It took its name from the People's Charter of 1838 and was a national protest movement, with particular strongholds of support in Northern England, the East Midlands, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Black Country, and the South Wales Valleys. The movement was fiercely opposed by government authorities who finally suppressed it. Support for the movement was at its highest when petitions signed by millions of working people were presented to the House of Commons. The strategy employed was to use the scale of support which these petitions and the accompanying mass meetings demonstrated to put pressure on politicians to concede manhood suffrage. Chartism thus relied on constitutional methods to secure its aims, though some became involved in insurrectionary activities, notably in South Wales and in Yorkshire. Chartists saw themselves fighting against political corruption and for democracy in an industrial society, but attracted support beyond the radical political groups for economic reasons, such as opposing wage cuts and unemployment. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. …