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- Revisits four key texts of English constitutional thought— Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Lord Macaulay’s History of England, Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution and Albert Venn Dicey’s Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution
- Offers a fresh study of the English constitution as it evolved over the course of the ‘long’ Victorian age
- Appeals to scholars and students of English political and legal history in the nineteenth century
Part of the book series: Palgrave Modern Legal History (PMLH)
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Book Title: Writing the Victorian Constitution
Authors: Ian Ward
Series Title: Palgrave Modern Legal History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96676-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96675-5Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07231-5Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96676-2Published: 21 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-6186
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6194
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 218
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Political History