{"product_id":"9781804294697","title":"The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined","description":"Author: Foot, Paul\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781804294697\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Sep 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 528 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe culmination of a lifetime's work by the great journalist and historian Paul Foot, \u003ci\u003eThe Vote\u003c\/i\u003e tells the thrilling story of the hard, long-fought struggle for the right to vote in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed.\u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of \"history from below\", Paul Foot examines the great democratic debates that dominated the fight for electoral democracy. Taking readers from the smoke-filled church of the Putney debates, to the dramatic arguments between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to the rise of Chartism and the struggles for votes for women.\u003cbr\u003eThroughout, Foot shows how vested interested first delayed and then hobbled the progress of parliamentary democracy. Concentrating on the vital role played by direct action, he shows how rank-and-file resistance to ruling-class injustice was followed by retreat into parliamentary impotence. Into the twentieth-century, Foot exposes the gaps between the promises of a succession of Labour governments and their actions once in power, and its abandonment of any aspiration to economic democracy.\u003cbr\u003eA gripping work of narrative history, written in Paul Foot's inimitable energy and engaged style, this book is a classic work of history, and a must-read for anyone interested in how today's political scene was formed.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46643218677918,"sku":"UBD-9781804294697","price":42.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781804294697.jpg?v=1774484394","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781804294697","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}