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Church, Chapel and Party

Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in Nineteenth-Century England
By:Richard D. Floyd
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230525405
eText ISBN:9780230590588
Edition:0
Copyright:2008
Format:Page Fidelity

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Through close examination of dozens of electoral contests in carefully chosen constituencies, the author demonstrates that the fundamental division separating the burgeoning liberal and conservative parties in England in the 1830s and 1840s was religion, and that this controversy was what created a perceptible two-party system in British politics.