Blaxill The War of Words

The Language of British Elections, 1880-1914
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-620-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 104, 362 Seiten

Reihe: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

A radical new approach to the political speeches delivered during this period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blaxill, Luke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the challenge of reintegration in political history
On method: text-mining, corpora and the historical study of language
The impact of reform: the general elections of 1880 and 1885
The impact of Home Rule: the general elections of 1886 and 1892
The impact of imperialism: the general elections of 1895 and 1900
The impact of New Liberalism: the general elections of 1906 and 1910
Conclusion: who won the war of words?
Appendix 1: Technical and methodological
Appendix 2: Statistical
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Blaxill Luke:
LUKE BLAXILL gained his PhD in History and the Digital Humanities from Kings College, London, in 2012; he is currently College Lecturer in Modern British History at Hertford College, Oxford.