{"id":103,"date":"2024-07-02T12:27:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/politicalhistory\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2024-08-23T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:24:41","slug":"subject-introductions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/","title":{"rendered":"Subject Introductions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-6d3fbd8f wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-173 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/economic-questions\/\" target=\"_self\" >Economic questions<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">During the nineteenth century, economics emerged as a recognisable and increasingly technical science of human behaviour and the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Yet no amount of&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-177 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/electoral-politics\/\" target=\"_self\" >Electoral politics<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">An understanding of how Britain\u2019s electoral system operated is crucial in getting to grips with many other aspects of politics during this period, notably the development of political parties and&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-171 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/empire-and-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" >Empire and Ireland<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Following the loss of the American colonies in the 1780s, the British Empire began to shift away from a dependence on mercantile trade and the geography of the Atlantic and&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-106 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/gender-and-politics\/\" target=\"_self\" >Gender and politics<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">By 1914, almost half a century after the first mass petition for women\u2019s suffrage was presented to the House of Commons by John Stuart Mill in 1866, the campaign for&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-175 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/institutions\/\" target=\"_self\" >Institutions<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In the wake of the French Revolution of 1789, a wide-ranging debate about the nature of Britain\u2019s political institutions began. William Cobbett summarised the case for change when he described&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-181 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/movements-and-ideologies\/\" target=\"_self\" >Movements and ideologies<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">From the reflections prompted by the French Revolution in the closing decades of the eighteenth century to the debates surrounding the emergence of socialism in the late nineteenth century, this&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-179 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/parties-and-leaders\/\" target=\"_self\" >Parties and leaders<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">At the end of the eighteenth century, most politicians would have thought of themselves as Whigs, in that they supported the constitutional arrangements between the monarchy, the House of Lords,&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-111 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/religion-and-politics\/\" target=\"_self\" >Religion and politics<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Religion played a prominent role in British politics during the long nineteenth century, determining both the terms upon which politics was conducted and the subject matter of many important debates.&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-183 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/the-state-and-social-reform\/\" target=\"_self\" >The state and social reform<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">At the end of the eighteenth century, Britain\u2019s central state assumed few other core responsibilities than defending the realm and administering the taxes required to fund the army and navy.&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-185 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-politicalhistory\/subject-introductions\/war-and-foreign-policy\/\" target=\"_self\" >War and foreign policy<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Britain\u2019s leading role in the defeat of France during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793\u20131802, 1803\u201315) gave it a major part in European affairs between 1815 and 1914. 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