Article: Re-reading the Constitution: New Narratives in the Political History of England's Long Nineteenth Century.

Jonathan Clark gave us the long eighteenth century (1688-1832) -- the ancien regime confessional state -- and now we are offered the long nineteenth century, whose range, for the purposes of this volume, extends from the early 1790s to either 1918 or 1928, depending on whether we heed the introductory blurb or the terminal date given in the title of the last essay. Alas, in the age of "shifting boundaries" we need not be unduly concerned about the long and the short of it. The premise of Re-reading the Constitution is that "constitutionalist discourse" suffused English political culture during the "long nineteenth century." The understanding of this discourse requires "new ...

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