The American Civil War in the shaping of British democracy / Brent E. Kinser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinser, Brent E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.

Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877.

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.

Political and social views.

Democracy.

History.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Democracy--Great Britain--History--19th century.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.

United States.

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881--Political and social views.

Carlyle, Thomas.

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882--Political and social views.

Trollope, Anthony.

Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877--Political and social views.

Bagehot, Walter.

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873--Political and social views.

Mill, John Stuart.

Physical Description:

191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]

Summary:

As British political commentators watched the United States slide into civil war across the Atlantic, many thought that the war and its consequences held lessons for the future of British parliamentary democracy. Kinser (English, Western Carolina U.) explores this British discourse on the American Civil War by focusing on how four prominent literary intellectuals thought about the lessons of the American Civil War for the question of expanding British democracy in their writings. These figures are: Thomas Carlyle, Walter Bagehot, Anthony Trollope, and John Stuart Mill. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction : trial of the century

Thomas Carlyle : the accidental democrat

Anthony Trollope : strange paradoxes

Walter Bagehot : the case against America

John Stuart Mill : calculations and feelings

Conclusion : fare-well democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754660958

0754660958

9781409425007

1409425002

OCLC:

672278460