Politics Without Democracy 1815-1914 (Paperback, 2nd Ed)

A study of 19th-century politics and government, which examines the crucial period of political change from the point of view of those in government.;Dr Bentley takes the reader into the minds of the governors of the day - influential men such as Wellington, Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Salisbury and Asquith - and charts how they did their best to control and manipulate the onset of "democracy".;This book provides a view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife.