1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement

This is a detailed study of the workings of the various parts of the British state in their confrontation with the radical movements of Chartism and Irish nationalism. The year 1848 was notable, first, for the immense influence of the French revolution of February upon the whole of Britain and, second, for the decisive defeats suffered by the radical movements. Professor Saville's analysis is based upon government and municipal archives, newspapers and contemporary writings, and proceeds chronologically from January to late summer, when mass arrests ended the insurgent movements on both sides of the Irish Channel. A further chapter looks at length at the workings of the legal system, and the volume concludes with a general commentary on the political consequences of the decline of Chartism which followed the defeats of 1848.

History

Saville, John

Europe

Cambridge University Press

<p>This is a detailed study of the workings of the various parts of the British state in their confrontation with the radical movements of Chartism and Irish nationalism. The year 1848 was notable, first, for the immense influence of the French revolution of February upon the whole of Britain and, second, for the decisive defeats suffered by the radical movements. Professor Saville's analysis is based upon government and municipal archives, newspapers and contemporary writings, and proceeds chronologically from January to late summer, when mass arrests ended the insurgent movements on both sides of the Irish Channel. A further chapter looks at length at the workings of the legal system, and the volume concludes with a general commentary on the political consequences of the decline of Chartism which followed the defeats of 1848.</p>

Provides an account of the political, social and economic changes that took place in the first half of the 19th century in Britain. This book examines the ways in which the structure of the state was adjusted and moulded to the requirements of the new capitalist order. Saville outlines the changing economics of the time and examines key themes, such as the disciplining of labour (central to the consolidation of state), the permeation of the middle classes into political life and the maintenance of political power by the landed aristocracy, which provided the conditions for the making of money by the new rising middle classes.

The Consolidation of the Capitalist State 1800-1850

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Pluto Press

Chronicling the life of a prolific writer and influential thinker in the 20th century, the political memoirs of John Saville trace his early encounters with the Communist Party, from his service in World War II in India as an anti-aircraft gunner to his involvement in the crisis of the British Communist Party in 1956. Saville's personal history is studded with such distinctive figures as John Griffith, Stuart Hall, Philip Larkin, Doris Lessing, Ralph Miliband, Sir John Pratt, Raphael Samuel, and E. P. Thompson.

Memoirs from the Left

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Merlin Press

Socialist Register 1987

Miliband, Ralph

Monthly Review Pr

Strict Settlement: A Guide for Historians

ENGLISH, BARBARA

Humanities Pr

This original and lucid book examines the foreign policy of the British Labour government in the aftermath of the Second World War. It exposes Britain’s complicity in the creation of the Cold War and emphasizes the continuity between Labour’s policies and those of Churchill’s coalition government, underscoring the political influence exercised by senior members of the Foreign Office.Drawing on substantial new research, Saville focuses on the role of Ernest Bevin and his differences with Clement Atlee, particularly with regard to Middle East. Countering the widely held view that Bevin sought accommodation with the Soviet Union, he reveals Labour’s Foreign Secretary as a fervent ideologue, wholly in agreement with the deep-seated anti-Sovietism of his permanent officials. Saville moves beyond the ‘revolutionist’ American scholarship of the 1960s and 70s to show th2 Foreign Office, under Bevin’s generalship, vigorously encouraging and then collaborating with the Americans in the pursuit of Cold War policies.The Politics of Continuity opens new avenues in the post-war diplomatic record. It will create a wide-ranging debate among historians and prove to be necessary work of reference for all those interested in international relations.

The Politics of Continuity: British Foreign Policy and the Labour Government, 1945-6

Verso

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