The War of Words - The Language of British Elections, 1880-1914

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Luke Blaxill

Product details

• Authors: Luke Blaxill, Luke (Royalty Account) Blaxill
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780861933549
• ISBN: 978-0-86193-354-9
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 163 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 710 g
• Illustrations: 18 colour, 3 b/w, 2 line illus.
• Series: Royal Historical Society Studi; Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History