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A Political History of Scotland 1832-1914
Parties, Elections and Issues by I. G. C. Hutchison
ISBN: 9781904607328
Imprint: John Donald
Publication Date: Mar 2003
Format: Paperback
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock
A study of the main political parties in Scotland, examining in particular their electoral fortunes from the time of the First Reform Bill to the emergence of the Labour party.
This book also explores the manner in which political issues impinged on the parties and how they responded to these policy demands. It also analyses the ways in which political trends in Scotland varied from the broad British pattern and discusses the reasons for this. It provides an illuminating perspective and serves as a corrective to both Scoto-centric and Anglo-centric interpretations of events.
Previous studies have tended to concentrate on the resources of the main record repositories in London and Edinburgh, and, while these collections are indispensable for any interpretation of the period, they do tend to highlight two types of politics more than others - the political operations of the great landed estates and the ’high politics’ of the front benchers - and they are not always fully representative of all parts of Scotland. I G C Hutchison’s important study pays attention to a wide variety of source material in private hands and in local record centres to redress the balance and provide a fuller picture.
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