London Politics, 1760-1914

MARC BAER Professor of History, Hope College, Michigan, USADAVID CAMPION Assistant Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USATIM COOPER Researcher, St Andrew's University, UKDETLEV MARES Lecturer, Institute of History, Darmstadt University of Technology, GermanyMATTHEW McCORMACK Lecturer in History, University College Northampton, UKDAVID NASH Reader in History, Oxford Brookes University, UKBEN WEINSTEIN ResearcherALEX WINDSCHEFFEL Lecturer in Modern British History, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

• List of Tables List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Cragoe & A.Taylor Metropolitan 'Radicalism' and Electoral Independence, 1760-1820; M.McCormack 'Policing the Peelers': Parliament, the Public and the Metropolitan Police, 1829-33; D.Campion Metropolitan Whiggery, 1832-55; B.Weinstein Post-Chartism: Metropolitan Perspectives on the Chartist Movement in Decline, 1848-80; A.Taylor Secularism in the City: Geographies of Dissidence and the Importance of Radical Culture in the Metropolis; D.Nash Transcending the Metropolis: London and Provincial Popular Radicalism, 1860-75; D.Mares From 'First Constituency of the Empire' to 'Citadel of Reaction': Westminster, 1800-90; M.Baer Late Victorian and Edwardian 'Slum Conservatism': How Different were the Politics of the London Poor?; M.Brodie 'In Darkest Lambeth': Henry Morton Stanley and the Imperial Politics of London Unionism; A.Windscheffel London-over-the-border: Politics in Suburban Walthamstow, 1870-1914; T.Cooper Conclusion; M.Cragoe & A.Taylor

'One of the book's attractions is its wide range of political concerns.' - Jerry White, Urban History '...the editors are to be congratulated for putting together a coherent set of essays that make a substantial contribution to the historiography of both popular politics and London. This volume deserves to be widely read, and not just by political historians. Social and cultural historians will find much in this collection that reinforces the image of London as a national and imperial metropolis; as a place of conflict over space, class and religion; and as an arena for anxieties surrounding gender and poverty. Political historians will find rich pickings, especially for the way in which several of the essays problemise popular radicalism, revealing it to be a heterogeneous, even incoherent, political movement.' - Matthew Roberts, Parliamentary History