Luke Blaxill

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The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880-1914Hardcover, 17 April 2020

The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880-1914
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Part of Series
Royal Historical Society Studies in History New
Print Length
362 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Royal Historical Society
Date Published
17 Apr 2020
ISBN-10
0861933540
ISBN-13
9780861933549

Description

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century have been widely eulogised as a "golden age" of popular platform oratory. This book considers the language of British elections - especially stump speeches - during this period. It employs a "big data" methodology inspired by computational linguistics, using text-mining to analyse over five million words delivered by Conservative, Liberal and Labour candidates in the nine elections that took place in this period. It systematically and authoritatively quantifies how and how far key issues, values, traditions and personalities manifested themselves in wider party discourse.
The author reassesses a number of central historical debates, arguing that historians have considerably underestimated the transformative impact of the 1883-5 reforms on rural party language, and the purchase of Joseph Chamberlain's Unauthorized Programme; that the centrality of Home Rule and Imperialism in the late 1880s and 1890s have been exaggerated; and that the New Liberalism's linguistic impact was relatively weak, failing to contain the message of the emerging Labour alternative.

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.

Product Details

Author:
Luke Blaxill
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
17 April 2020
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 2.06 cm
ISBN-10:
0861933540
ISBN-13:
9780861933549
Language:
English
Location:
Woodbridge
Pages:
362
Weight:
680.39 gm

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