Shooting Niagara – And After? The Second Reform Act And Its World

Shooting Niagara – And After? is a wide-ranging examination of Britain’s Second Reform Act of 1867 and its impact, which doubled the electorate and propelled the country into the age of mass politics.

Discusses the political world that the Second Reform Act created, as well as the intellectual forces which brought it into beingAddresses issues and perspectives related to political history, imperial history, Irish history, the history of childhood, popular protest, political thought, class, age, and genderContains contributions from distinguished scholars, such as Malcolm Chase, Kathryn Gleadle, Jonathan Parry and Gareth Stedman Jones, as well as from younger and emerging scholarsCoincides with the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Second Reform Act, a landmark in the history of British democracy