Parliament: The Biography. Volume II - Reform / Книга на Английском (Bryant Chris); Black Swan, 2015

Two centuries of reform, revolution and political intrigue in Chris Bryant's epic biography of Parliament

Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won for the working classes and, eventually, for women. The world was torn apart by two extraordinarily bloody wars. And individual politicians were cheered for their altruism or their bravery and jeered for their sexual or financial misdemeanours.
This second volume of Chris Bryant's majestic Parliament: The Biography has a cast of characters that includes some of British history's most famous names: the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher. Its recurring theme is reform and innovation, but it also lays bare obsessive respect for the past and a dedication to evolution rather than revolution, which has left us with a fudged constitution still perilously dependent on custom, convention and gentlemen's agreements.
This is riveting, flawlessly researched and accessible popular history for anyone with an interest in why modern Britain is the nation it is today.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780552779968
Автор(ы)	Bryant Chris
Вес	0.35
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2015
Жанр	история
Издатель	Black Swan
Издательство	Black Swan
Кол-во страниц	468
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	468
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая